ON FREE AGENCY, MAINTAINING THAT THE IMMUTABILITY OF THE DIVINE NATURE IS PER- FECTLY COMPATIBLE WITH THE MORAL FREEDOM OF THE INTELLECTUAL WORLD; ALSO, A DISSERTATION ON THE MOSAIC ACCOUNT OF THE CREATION, " COMPRISING ITS MOST REMARKABLE INTERNAL EVIDENCES RESPECTING THE ANTIQUITY OF THE EARTH, &C. BY THE REV. EDWARD DOWLING, A.M. Δόξα ἐν ὑψίστοις Θεῷ, καὶ ἐπὶ γῆς ἐιρήνη, ἐν ἀνθρώποις ἐυδοκία.” Λουκ. ii. 14. LONDON: J. HATCHARD AND SON, PICCADILLY; J. COCHRAN, 108, 1829. 8o TO THE MOST NOBLE THE MARQUESS OF ANGLESEY, K.G. &c. &c. &c. MY LORD MARQUESS, IN presuming to dedicate this little work to your Lordship, I do so with sentiments of no ordinary description. Among many inducements, however, to entertain my feelings in silence, I am not ignorant of your Lordship's dignified aversion to the incense of eulogium, as relying more on signal services rendered to your country, than on any ineffectual attempt in others to give them a suitable propriety of expression. Yet, I cannot resist the impulse of paying |