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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
Part 2 › Section 11: The Evidence of GOD's certain Foreknowledge of the Volitions of moral Agents.
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SECTION XI. The Evidence of GOD's certain Foreknowledge of the Volitions of moral Agents.
THAT the Acts of the Wills of moral Agents are not contingent Events, in that Sense, as to be without all Necessity, appears by God's certain Foreknowledge of such Events.
In handling this Argument, I would in the first Place prove, that God has a certain Foreknowledge of the voluntary Acts of moral Agents; and secondly, show the Consequence, or how it follows from hence, that the Volitions of moral Agents are not contingent, so as to be without Necessity of Connection and Consequence.
In handling this Argument, I would in the first Place prove, that God has a certain Foreknowledge of the voluntary Acts of moral Agents; and secondly, shew the Consequence, or how it follows from hence, that the Volitions of moral Agents are not contingent, so as to be without Necessity of Connection and Consequence.
FIRST, I am to prove, that God has an absolute and certain Foreknowledge of the free Actions of moral Agents.