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A careful and strict enquiry into the modern prevailing notions of that freedom of…
A careful and strict enquiry into the modern prevailing notions of that freedom of will, which is supposed to be essential to moral agency, virtue and vice, reward and punishment, praise and blame. By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. Pastor of the church in Stockbridge. ; [One line from Romans]A careful and strict enquiry into the modern prevailing notions of that freedom of will, which is supposed to be essential to moral agency, vertue and vice, reward and punishment, praise and blame. By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. Pastor of the church in Stockbridge. ; [One line from Romans]
printed by S. Kneeland, 1754
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
SECTION I. Showing the manifest Inconsistence of the Arminian Notion of Liberty of Will, consisting in the Will's self-determining Power.
SECTION I. Shewing the manifest Inconsistence of the Arminian Notion of Liberty of Will, consisting in the Will's self-determining Power.
Having taken Notice of those Things which may be necessary to be observed, concerning the Meaning of the principal Terms and Phrases made use of in Controversies concerning human Liberty, and particularly observed what Liberty is, according to the common Language, and general Apprehension of Mankind, and what it is as understood & maintained by Arminians; I proceed to consider the Arminian Notion of the Freedom of the Will, and the supposed Necessity of it in Order to moral Agency, or in Order to any One's being capable of Virtue or Vice, and properly ⟨p. 32⟩the Subject of Command or Counsel, Praise or Blame, Promises or Threatenings, Rewards or Punishments; or whether that which has been described, as the Thing meant by Liberty in common Speech, be not sufficient, and the only Liberty, which makes, or can make any one a moral Agent, and so properly the Subject of these Things. In this Part, I shall consider whether any such Thing be possible or conceivable, as that Freedom of Will which Arminians insist on; and shall enquire whether any such Sort of Liberty be necessary to moral Agency &c. in the next Part.
HAving taken Notice of those Things which may be necessary to be observed, concerning the Meaning of the principal Terms and Phrases made use of in Controversies concerning human Liberty, and particularly observed what Liberty is, according to the common Language, and general Apprehension of Mankind, and what it is as understood & maintained by Arminians; I proceed to consider the Arminian Notion of the Freedom of the Will, and the supposed Necessity of it in Order to moral Agency, or in Order to any One's being capable of Vertue or Vice, and properly ⟨p. 32⟩