Excerpt from Free Agency and Moral Inability Reconciled: A Sermon Preached at the Installation of Rev. Charles Lowe, as Pastor of the North Church in Salem, Massachusetts, September 27, 1855<br><br>To take another instance. I will suppose opportunity for the unrestrained indulgence of some vicious appetite 'placed before all of you in forms that would be tempting to the lower nature of every one of you. I will suppose every motive ofshame removed, every earthly inducement to abstinence with drawn. In the popular sense of the words, you are all capable of this excess, and would derive temporary pleasure from it. Yet there are some of you, who could not will to indulge in it. There are some of you, in whom moral, Christian principle Would be so strong as to constrain your wills - no matter how fierce the temptation - within the laws of purity, temperance and sobriety. Thus, though you are free agents, your wills are not free; for there are things, which. You are able to do, yet which you are incapable of willing.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.