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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.
If any shall find Fault with this Reasoning, that it is going a great Length into metaphysical Niceties and Subtleties; I answer, The Objection which they are in Reply to, is a •• taphysical Subtlety, and must be treated according to the Nature of it.*
If any shall find Fault with this Reasoning, that it is going a great Length into metaphysical Niceties and Subtilties; I answer, The Objection which they are in Reply to, is a •• taphysical Subtilty, and must be treated according to the Nature of it.*
- *For Men to have Recourse to Subtleties, in raising Difficulties, and then complain, that they should be taken off by […] examining these Subtleties, is a strange Kind of Procedure. Nature of the Hum. Soul. V. 2. P. 331.For Men to have Recourse to Subtilties, in raising Difficulties, and then complain, that they should be taken off by 〈…〉 examining these Subtilties, is a strange Kind of Procedure. Nature of the Hum. Soul. V. 2. P. 331.
II. Another Thing alleged is, That innumerable Things which are determined by the divine Will, and chosen and done by God rather than others, differ from those that are not chosen in so inconsiderable a Manner, that it would be unreasonable to suppose the Difference to be of any Consequence, or that there is any superior Fitness or Goodness, that God can have Respect to in the Determination.
II. Another Thing alledged is, That inummerable Things which are determined by the divine Will, and chosen and done by God rather than others, differ from those that are not chosen in so inconsiderable a Manner, that it would be unreasonable to suppose the Difference to be of any Consequence, or that there is any superiour Fitness or Goodness, that God can have Respect to in the Determination.