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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.
A General TABLE Of the CONTENTS.
PART I. Wherein are explained various Terms and Things belonging to the Subject of the ensuing Discourse. SECT. I. Concerning the Nature of the Will. Pag. 1, &c. SECT. II. Concerning the Determination of the Will. Pag. 5. SECT. III. Concerning the Meaning of the Terms Necessity, Impossibility, Inability, &c. and of Contingence. Pag. 13. SECT. IV. Of the Distinction of natural and moral Necessity and Inability. Pag. 20. SECT. V. Concerning the Notion of Liberty, and of moral Agency. Pag. 27.
PART I. Wherein are explain'd various Terms and Things belonging to the Subject of the ensuing Discourse. SECT. I. Concerning the Nature of the Will. Pag. 1, &c. SECT. II. Concerning the Determination of the Will. Pag. 5. SECT. III. Concerning the Meaning of the Terms Necessity, Impossibility, Inability, &c. and of Contingence. Pag. 13. SECT. IV. Of the Distinction of natural and moral Necessity and Inability. Pag. 20. SECT. V. Concerning the Notion of Liberty, and of moral Agency. Pag. 27.
PART II. Wherein it is considered, Whether there is, or can be any such Sort of FREEDOM OF WILL, as that wherein Arminians place the Essence of the Liberty of all moral Agents; and whether any such Thing ever was, or can be conceived of. SECT. I. Showing the manifest Inconsistence of the Arminian Notion of Liberty of Will, consisting in the Will's self-determining Power. Pag. 31. SECT. II. Several supposed Ways of evading the foregoing Reasoning considered. Pag. 35. SECT. III. Whether any Event whatsoever, and Volition in particular, can come to pass without a Cause of it's Existence. Pag. 41.