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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.
Also the Dependence of those who looked for Redemption in Jerusalem, and waited for the Consolation of Israel, (Luke ii.25. & 38.) and the Confidence of the Disciples of Jesus, who forsook all and followed Him, that they might enjoy the Benefits of his future Kingdom, was built on a sandy Foundation.
Also the Dependance of those who looked for Redemption in Ierusalem, and waited for the Consolation of Israel, (Luke ii.25. & 38.) and the Confidence of the Disciples of Jesus, who forsook all and followed Him, that they might enjoy the Benefits of his future Kingdom, was built on a sandy Foundation.
11. The Man Christ Jesus, before he had finished his Course of Obedience, and while in the midst of Temptations and Trials, was abundant in positively predicting his own future Glory in his Kingdom, and the Enlargement of his Church, the Salvation of the Gentiles through Him &c. and in Promises of Blessings he would bestow on his true Disciples in his future Kingdom▪ on which Promises he required the full Dependence of his Disciples. (Joh. xiv.) But the Disciples would have had no Ground for such Dependence, if Christ had been liable to fail in his Work: And Christ Himself would have been guilty of Presumption, in so abounding in peremptory Promises of great Things, which depended on a mere Contingence; viz. the Determinations of his free Will, consisting in a Freedom ad utrumque, to either Sin or Holiness, standing in Indifference, and incident, in Thousands of future Instances, to go either one Way or the other.
11. The Man Christ Jesus, before he had finished his Course of Obedience, and while in the midst of Temptations and Trials, was abundant in positively predicting his own future Glory in his Kingdom, and the Enlargement of his Church, the Salvation of the Gentiles through Him &c. and in Promises of Blessings he would bestow on his true Disciples in his future Kingdom on which Promises he required the full Dependance of his Disciples. (