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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.
But whether this be in a just Consistence with Themselves, and their own Notions of Liberty, I desire may now be impartially considered.
Dr. Whitby plainly supposes, that the Acts and Determinations of the Will always follow the Understanding's Apprehension or View of the greatest Good to be obtained, or Evil to be avoided; or in other Words, that the Determinations of the Will constantly and infallibly follow these two Things in the Understanding: 1. The Degree of Good to be obtained, and Evil to be avoided, proposed to the Understanding, and apprehended, viewed, and taken Notice of by it. 2. The Degree of the Understanding's View, Notice or Apprehension of that Good or Evil; which is increased by Attention and Consideration. That this is an Opinion he is exceeding peremptory in (as he is in every Opinion which he maintains in his Controversy with the Calvinists) with Disdain ⟨p. 78⟩of the contrary Opinion, as absurd and self-contradictory, will appear by the following Words of his, in his Discourse on the five Points.*
Dr. Whitby plainly supposes, that the Acts and Determinations of the Will always follow the Understanding's Apprehension or View of the greatest Good to be obtain'd, or Evil to be avoided; or in other Words, that the Determinations of the Will constantly and infallibly follow these two Things in the Understanding: 1. The Degree of Good to be obtained, and Evil to be avoided, proposed to the Understanding, and apprehended, viewed, and taken Notice of by it. 2. The Degree of the Understanding's View, Notice or Apprehension of that Good or Evil; which is increased by Attention and Consideration. That this is an Opinion he is exceeding peremptory in (as he is in every Opinion which he maintains in his Controversy with the Calvinists) with Disdain ⟨p. 78⟩of the contrary Opinion, as absurd and self-contradictory, will appear by the following Words of his, in his Discourse on the five Points.