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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.
8. That it should have been possible for Christ's Holiness to fail, is not consistent with what God promised to his Son before all Ages. For, that Salvation should be offered to Men thro' Christ, and bestowed on all his faithful Followers, is what is at least implied in that certain and infallible Promise spoken of by the Apostle, Tit. i.2. In hope of eternal Life; which God, that cannot lie, promised before the World began. This don't seem to be controverted by Arminians.*
- *See Dr. Whitby on the five Points▪ P. 48, 49, 50.
9. That it should be possible for Christ to fail of doing his Father's Will, is inconsistent with the Promise made to the Father by the Son, by the Logos that was with the Father from the Beginning, before he took the human Nature: as may be seen in Psal. xl.6, 7, 8. (compared with the Apostle's Interpretation, Heb. x.5,— 9.) Sacrifice and Offering thou didst not desire: mine Ears hast thou opened, (or bored;) Burnt-Offering and Sin-Offering Thou hast not required. Then said I, Lo, I come: In the Volume of the Book it is written of me, I delight to do thy Will, O my God, and thy Law is within my Heart. Where is a manifest Allusion to the Covenant which the willing Servant, who loved his Master's Service, made with his Master, to be his Servant for ever, on ⟨p. 146⟩the Day wherein he had his Ear bored; which Covenant was probably inserted in the public Records, called the Volume of the Book, by the Judges, who were called to take Cognizance of the Transaction;