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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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The Destruction of Babylon, with many of the Circumstances of it, was fore-told, as the Judgment of God for the exceeding Pride and Haughtiness of the Heads of that Monarchy, Nebuchadnezzar, and his Successors, and their wickedly destroying other Nations, and particularly for their exalting themselves against the true God and his People, before any of these Monarchs had a Being; Isai. Chap. xiii, xiv, xlvii: Compare Habak. ii.5, to the End, and Jer. Chap. l. and li. That Babylon's Destruction was to be a Recompense, according to the Works of their own Hands, appears by Jer. xxv.14. — The Immorality which the People of Babylon, and particularly her Princes and great Men, were guilty of, that very Night that the City was destroyed, their Revelling and Drunkenness at Belshazzar's Idolatrous Feast, was foretold, Jer. li.39, 57.
The Destruction of Babylon, with many of the Circumstances of it, was fore-told, as the Judgment of God for the exceeding Pride and Haughtiness of the Heads of that Monarchy, Nebuchadnezzar, and his Successors, and their wickedly destroying other Nations, and particularly for their exalting themselves against the true God and his People, before any of these Monarchs had a Being; Isai. Chap. xiii, xiv, xlvii: Compare Habbak. ii.5, to the End, and Ier. Chap. l. and li. That Babylon's Destruction was to be a Recompence, according to the Works of their own Hands, appears by Ier. xxv.14. — The Immorality which the People of Babylon, and particularly her Princes and great Men, were guilty of, that very Night that the City was destroyed, their Revelling and Drunkenness at Belshazzar's Idolatrous Feast, was foretold, Ier. li.39, 57.
The Return of the Jews from the Babylonish Captivity is often very particularly foretold, with many Circumstances, and the Promises of it are very peremptory;