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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.)
Now therefore, with an Eye to these Things, I would enquire into the moral Conduct and Practice of our Lord Jesus Christ, which he exhibited in his human Nature here, in his State of Humiliation. And First, I would show, that his holy Behaviour was necessary; or that it was impossible it should be otherwise, than that He should behave himself holily, and that he should be perfectly holy in each individual Act of his Life. And Secondly, that his holy Behaviour was properly of the Nature of Virtue, and was worth of Praise; and that He was the Subject of Law, Precepts or Commands, Promises and Rewards; and that he was in a State of Trial.