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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
Part 1 › Section 2: Concerning the Determination of the Will.
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.
I. One Thing that makes an Object proposed to Choice agreeable, is the apparent Nature and Circumstances of the Object. And there are various Things of this Sort, that have an Hand in rendering the Object more or less agreeable; as,
I. One Thing that makes an Object proposed to Choice agreable, is the apparent Nature and Circumstances of the Object. And there are various Things of this Sort, that have an Hand in rendring the Object more or less agreable; as,
1. That which appears in the Object, which renders it beautiful and pleasant, or deformed and irksome to the Mind; viewing it as it is in it self.
1. That which appears in the Object, which renders it beautiful and pleasant, or deformed and irksom to the Mind; viewing it as it is in it self.
2. The apparent Degree of Pleasure or Trouble attending the Object, or the Consequence of it. Such Concomitants and Consequents being viewed as Circumstances of the Object, are to be considered as belonging to it, and as it were Parts of it; as it stands in the Mind's View, as a proposed Object of Choice.
2. The apparent Degree of Pleasure or Trouble attending the Object, or the Consequence of it. Such Concomitants and Consequents being view'd as Circumstances of the Object, are to be considered as belonging to it, and as it were Parts of it; as it stands in the Mind's View, as a proposed Object of Choice.