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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.
SECTION I. GOD's moral Excellency necessary, yet virtuous and praise-worthy.
SECTION I. GOD's moral Excellency necessary, yet vertuous and praise-worthy.
HAVING considered the first Thing that was proposed to be enquired into, relating to that Freedom of Will which Arminians maintain; namely, Whether any such Thing does, ever did, or ever can exist, or be conceived of; I come now to the second Thing proposed to be the Subject of Enquiry, viz. Whether any such Kind of Liberty be requisite to moral Agency, Virtue and Vice, Praise and Blame, Reward and Punishment, &c.
HAVING considered the first Thing that was proposed to be enquired into, relating to that Freedom of Will which Arminians maintain; namely, Whether any such Thing does, ever did, or ever can exist, or be conceived of; I come now to the second Thing proposed to be the Subject of Enquiry, viz. Whether any such Kind of Liberty be requisite to moral Agency, Vertue and Vice, Praise and Blame, Reward and Punishment, &c.
I shall begin with some Consideration of the Virtue and Agency of the Supreme moral Agent, and Fountain of all Agency and Virtue.
I shall begin with some Consideration of the Vertue and Agency of the Supream moral Agent, and Fountain of all Agency and Vertue.