...: not God. If he foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault, Which had proved no less certain, unforeknown : So, without least impulse, or shadow of fate, Or aught by him, immutably foreseen, They trespassed." This view of the matter, falls in precisely with the language...

...making, or their fate, As if predestination over-ruled Their will, disposed by absolute decree, 115 Or high foreknowledge. They themselves decreed Their own revolt, not I ; if 1 foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault, Which had no less proved certain, unforeknown....

...both, had served necessity, 110 Not me ? They therefore, as to right belong'd, So were created, nor can justly accuse Their Maker, or their making, or...predestination overruled Their will disposed by absolute decree 115 Or high foreknowledge ; they themselves decreed Their own revolt, not I ; if I foreknew, Foreknowledge...

...both, had served necessity, 110 Not me ? They therefore, as to right belong'd, So were created, nor can justly accuse Their Maker, or their making, or...predestination overruled Their will disposed by absolute decree 115 Or high foreknowledge ; they themselves decreed Their own revolt, not I ; if I foreknew, Foreknowledge...

...What praise could they receive ? Not me ? They therefore, as to right belong'd, So were created, nor can justly accuse Their Maker, or their making, or their fate ; As if predestination over-rul'd What pleasure I from such obedience paid, When will and reason (reason also is choice) Useless...

...over-rul'd Thir will, dispos'd by absolute Decree Or high foreknowledge; they themselves decreed Thir own revolt, not I: if I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault, Which had no less prov'd certain unforeknown. So without least impulse or shadow of Fate, Or by me immutablie foreseen,...

...served Necessity, 110 Not me? They, therefore, as to right belonged, So were created, nor can jusdy accuse Their Maker, or their making, or their fate,...unforeknown. So without least impulse or shadow of fate, 120 Or aught by me immutably foreseen, They trespass, authors to themselves in all, Both what they...

...expressed essentially the same thought in his Paradise Lost, in a passage in which God said: (346) If I foreknew. Foreknowledge had no influence on their...fault Which had no less proved certain unforeknown. of reconciling God's foreknowledge with human freedom. Hartshorne wrote, in l956: (347) If the events...

...As Danielson puts it. his "service to God is freedom's fulfillment" (Milton's Good God 117). 5. Cf. "if I foreknew, / Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault. / Which had no less prov'd certain unforeknown" (3:11 "-19). Danielson is satisfied with "Milton's presentation of divine...

...the tragedy of human history unfolds (11.770-6). God insists vehemently, though somewhat defensively, if I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault, Which had no less prov'd certain unforeknown. So without least impulse or shadow of Fate, Or aught by me immutably foreseen,...