N05663:240
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.
Here it may be proper to observe, that Mr. Chubb, in his Collection of Tracts on various Subjects, has advanced a Scheme of Liberty, which is greatly divided against it self, and thoroughly subversive of it self; and that many Ways.
I. He is abundant in asserting, that the Will, in all it's Acts, is influenced by Motive and Excitement; and that this is the previous Ground and Reason of all it's Acts, and that it is never otherwise in any Instance. He says, (P. 262.) No Action can take Place without some Motive to excite it. And in P. 203. Volition cannot take Place without some PREVIOUS Reason or Motive to induce it. And in P. 310. Action would not take Place without s•me Reason or Motive to induce it; it being absurd to suppose, that the active Faculty would be exerted without some PREVIOUS Reason to dispose the Mind to Action. So also P. 257. And he speaks of th•se Things as what we may be absolutely certain of, and which are the Foundation, the only Foundation we have of a Certainty of the moral Perfections of God. P. 252, 253, 254, 255, 261, 262, 263, 264.
I. He is abundant in asserting, that the Will, in all it's Acts, is influenced by Motive and Excitement; and that this is the previous Ground and Reason of all it's Acts, and that it is never otherwise in any Instance. He says, (P. 262.) No Action can take Place without some Motive to excite it. And in P. 203. Volition cannot take Place without some PREVIOUS Reason or M•tive to induce it. And in P. 310. Action would not take Place without s•me Reason or Motive to induce it; it being absurd to suppose, that the active Faculty would be exerted without some PREVIOUS Reason to dispose the Mind to Action. So also P. 257. And he speaks of th•se Things as what we may be absolutely certain of, and which are the Foundation, the only Foundation we have of a Certainty of the moral Perfections of God. P. 252, 253, 254, 255, 261, 262, 263, 264.