It's not only the sins that are visited upon you if you take the details of your antecedence seriously.
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The chief principle, then, of savage science is that antecedence and consequence in time are the same as effect and cause.
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I must necessarily set out from the one, to which therefore I give hypothetical antecedence, in order to arrive at the other.
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And a posteriori, it will be proved by the principle itself when it is discovered, as involving universal antecedence in its very conception.
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Secondly, it may be referred to the very nature of the action itself: that is, forasmuch as predestination implies antecedence and gratuitous effect.
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Moreover, it must be observed that, although the participle "predestinated," just as this participle "made," implies antecedence, yet there is a difference.
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3: Further, just as that which has been made was not always, so also that which was predestinated; since predestination implies a certain antecedence.