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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 III. The Reasons why some think it contrary to common Sense, to suppose those Things which are necessary, to be worthy of either Praise or Blame.
'TIS abundantly affirmed and urged by Arminian Writers, that it is contrary to common Sense, and the natural Notions and Apprehensions of Mankind, to suppose otherwise than that Necessity (making no Distinction between natural and moral Necessity) is inconsistent with Virtue and Vice, Praise and Blame, Reward and Punishment. And their Arguments from hence have been greatly triumphed in; and have been not a little perplexing to many who have been friendly to the Truth, as clearly revealed in the holy Scriptures: It has seemed to them indeed difficult, to reconcile Calvinistic Doctrines with the Notions Men commonly have of Justice and Equity. And the true Reasons of it seem to be these that follow.
'TIS abundantly affirmed and urged by Arminian Writers, that it is contrary to common Sense, and the natural Notions and Apprehensions of Mankind, to suppose otherwise than that Necessity (making no Distinction between natural and moral Necessity) is inconsistent with Vertue and Vice, Praise and Blame, Reward and Punishment. And their Arguments from hence have been greatly triumphed in; and have been not a little perplexing to many who have been friendly to the Truth, as clearly revealed in the holy Scriptures: It has seem'd to them indeed difficult, to reconcile Calvinistic Doctrines with the Notions Men commonly have of Justice and Equity. And the true Reasons of it seem to be these that follow.