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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.
V. Mr. Chubb does most strenuously deny, that Motives are Causes of the Acts of the Will; or that the moving Principle in Man is moved, or caused to be exerted by Motives. His Words P. 388 & 389. are, If the moving Principle in Man is MOVED, or CAUSED TO BE EXERTED, by something external to Man, which all Motives are, then it would not be a Self-moving Principle, seeing it would be moved by a Principle external to it self. And to say, that a Self-moving Principle is MOVED, or CAUSED TO BE EXERTED, by a Cause external to it self, is absurd and a Contradiction &c. —And in the next Page, 'tis particularly and largely insisted, that Motives are Causes in no Case, that they are merely passive in the Production of Action, and have no Causality in the Production of it, — no Causality, to be the Cause of the Exertion of the Will.
V. Mr. Chubb does most strenuously deny, that Motives are Causes of the Acts of the Will; or that the moving Principle in Man is moved, or caused to be exerted by Motives. His Words P. 388 & 389. are, If the moving Principle in Man is MOVED, or CAUSED TO BE EXERTED, by something external to Man, which all Motives are, then it would not be a Self-moving Principle, seeing it would be moved by a Principle external to it self. And to say, that a Self-moving Principle is MOVED, or CAUSED TO BE EXERTED, by a Cause external to it self, is absurd and a Contradiction &c. —And in the next Page, 'tis particularly and largely insisted, that Motives are Causes in no Case, that they are meerly passive in the Production of Action, and have no Causality in the Production of it, — no Causality, to be the Cause of the Exertion of the Will.
Now I desire it may be […] considered, how this can possibly consists with what he says other Places. Let it be noted here.
Now I desire it may be 〈…〉 considered, how this can possibly consists with what he says other Places. Let it be noted here.