N05663:17
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.
PART III. Wherein is enquired, Whether any such Liberty of Will as Arminians hold, be necessary to moral Agency, Virtue and Vice, Praise and Dispraise, &c. SECT. I. God's moral Excellency necessary, yet virtuous and Praise-worthy. Pag. 135. SECT. II. The Acts of the Will of the human Soul of JESUS CHRIST necessarily holy, yet virtuous, praise-worthy, rewardabl•, &c. Pag. 139. SECT. III. The Case of such as are given up of God to Sin, ⟨image ?⟩and of fallen Man in general, proves moral Necessity and Inability to be consistent with Blame-worthiness. Pag. 153. SECT. IV. Command, and Obligation to Obedience, consistent with moral Inability to obey. Pag. 159. SECT. V. That Sincerity of Desires and Endeavours, which is supposed to excuse in the Non-performance of Things in themselves good, particularly considered. Pag. 170. SECT. VI. Liberty of Indifference, not only not necessary to Virtue, but utterly inconsistent with it: and all, either virtuous, or vicious Habits and Inclinations, inconsistent with Arminian Notions of Liberty, and moral Agency. Pag. 178. SECT. VII. Arminian Notions of moral Agency inconsistent with all Influence of Motive and Inducement, in either virtuous or vicious Actions. Pag. 185.
PART III. Wherein is enquired, Whether any such Liberty of Will as Arminians hold, be necessary to moral Agency, Vertue and Vice, Praise and Dispraise, &c. SECT. I. God's moral Excellency necessary, yet vertuous and Prais•-worthy. Pag. 135. SECT. II. The Acts of the Will of the human Soul of JESUS CHRIST necessarily holy, yet vertuous, praise-worthy, rewardabl•, &c. Pag. 139. SECT. III. The Case of such as are given up of God to Sin, ⟨image ?⟩and of fallen Man in general, proves moral Necessity and Inability to be consistent with Blame-worthiness. Pag. 153. SECT. IV. Command, and Obligation to Obedience, consistent with moral Inability to obey. Pag. 159. SECT. V. That Sincerity of Desires and Endeavours, which is supposed to excuse in the Non-performance of Things in themselves good, particularly considered. Pag. 170. SECT. VI. Liberty of Indifference, not only not necessary to Vertue, but utterly inconsistent with it: and all, either vertuous, or vicious Habits and Inclinations, inconsistent with Arminian Notions of Liberty, and moral Agency. Pag. 178. SECT. VII. Arminian Notions of moral Agency inconsistent with all Influence of Motive and Inducement, in either vertuous or vicious Actions. Pag. 185.