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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 II. The Acts of the Will of the human Soul of JESUS CHRIST necessarily holy, yet truly virtuous, praise-worthy, rewardable, &c.
SECTION II. The Acts of the Will of the human Soul of JESUS CHRIST necessarily holy, yet truly vertuous, praise-worthy, rewardable, &c.
I Have already considered how Dr. Whitby insists upon it, that a Freedom, not only from Coaction, but Necessity, is requisite to either Virtue or Vice, Praise or Dispraise, Reward or Punishment. He also insists on the same Freedom as absolutely requisite to a Person's being the Subject of a Law, or Precepts or Prohibitions; in the Book before mentioned (P. 301, 314, 328, 339, 340, 341, 342, 347, 361, 373, 410.) And of Promises and Threatenings (P. 298, 301, 305, 311, 339, 340, 363.) And as requisite to a State of Trial. (P. 297, &c.)
I Have already considered how Dr. Whitby insists upon it, that a Freedom, not only from Coaction, but Necessity, is requisite to either Vertue or Vice, Praise or Dispraise, Reward or Punishment. He also insists on the same Freedom as absolutely requisite to a Person's being the Subject of a Law, or Precepts or Prohibitions; in the Book before mentioned (P. 301, 314, 328, 339, 340, 341, 342, 347, 361, 373, 410.) And of Promises and Threatnings (P. 298, 301, 305, 311, 339, 340, 363.) And as requisite to a State of Trial. (P. 297, &c.)