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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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Corol. 1. Hence that great Promise and Oath of God to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, so much celebrated in Scripture, both in the Old Testament and New, namely, That in their Seed all the Nations and Families of the Earth should be blessed, must be made on Uncertainties, if God don't certainly foreknow the Volitions of moral Agents. For the Fulfilment of this Promise consists in that Success of Christ in the Work of Redemption, and that Setting up of his spiritual Kingdom over the Nations of the World, which has been spoken of. Men are blessed in Christ no otherwise than as they are brought to acknowledge Him, trust in Him, love and serve Him, as is represented and predicted in Psal. lxxii.11. All Kings shall fall down before Him; all Nations shall serve Him. With ver. 17. M•n shall be blessed in Him; all Nations shall call him Blessed. This Oath to Jacob and Abraham is fulfilled in subduing Men's Iniquities; as is implied in that of the Prophet Micah, Chap. vii.19, 20.
Corol. 1. Hence that great Promise and Oath of God to Abraham, Isaac and Iacob, so much celebrated in Scripture, both in the Old Testament and New, namely, That in their Seed all the Nations and Families of the Earth should be blessed, must be made on Uncertainties, if God don't certainly foreknow the Volitions of moral Agents. For the Fulfilment of this Promise consists in that Success of Christ in the Work of Redemption, and that Setting up of his spiritual Kingdom over the Nations of the World, which has been spoken of. Men are blessed in Christ no otherwise than as they are bro't to acknowledge Him, trust in Him, love and serve Him, as is represented and predicted in Psal. lxxii.11. All Kings shall fall down before Him; all Nations shall serve Him. With ver. 17. M•n shall be blessed in Him; all Nations shall call him Blessed. This Oath to Iacob and Abraham is fulfilled in subduing Men's Iniquities; as is implied in that of the Prophet Micah, Chap. vii.19, 20.