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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 VII. Arminian Notions of moral Agency inconsistent with all Influence of Motive and Inducement, in either virtuous or vicious Actions.
SECTION VII. Arminian Notions of moral Agency inconsistent with all Influence of Motive and Inducement, in either vertuous or vicious Actions.
AS Arminian Notions of that Liberty, which is essential to Virtue or Vice, are inconsistent with common Sense, in their being inconsistent with all virtuous or vicious Habits and Dispositions; so they are no less so in their Inconsistency with all Influence of Motives in moral Actions.
AS Arminian Notions of that Liberty, which is essential to Vertue or Vice, are inconsistent with common Sense, in their being inconsistent with all vertuous or vicious Habits and Dispositions; so they are no less so in their Inconsistency with all Influence of Motives in moral Actions.
'Tis equally against those Notions of Liberty of Will, whether there be, previous to the Act of Choice, a Preponderancy of the Inclination, or a Preponderancy of those Circumstances, which have a Tendency to move the Inclination. And indeed it comes to just the same Thing: To say, the Circumstances of the Mind are such as tend to sway and turn it's Inclination one Way, is the same Thing as to say, the Inclination of the Mind, as under such Circumstances, tends that Way.