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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.
2. That it will follow from hence, that God is free from every Thing that is contrary to Happiness; and so, that in strict Propriety of Speech, there is no such Thing as any Pain, Grief or Trouble in God.
3. When any intelligent Being is really crossed and disappointed, and Things are contrary to what He truly desires, He is the less pleased, or has less Pleasure, his Pleasure and Happiness is diminished, and he suffers what is disagreeable to him, or is the Subject of something that is of a Nature contrary to Joy and Happiness, even Pain and Grief.**
3. When any intelligent Being is really cross'd and disappointed, and Things are contrary to what He truly desires, He is the less pleased, or has less Pleasure, his Pleasure and Happiness is diminished, and he suffers what is disagreable to him, or is the Subject of something that is of a Nature contrary to Joy and Happiness, even Pain and Grief.**
- **Certainly 'tis not less absurd & unreasonable, to talk of God's Will and Desire's being truly and properly cross'd, without his suffering any Uneasiness, or any Thing grievous or disagreeable, than it is to talk of something that may be called a revealed Will, which may in some Respect be different from a secret Purpose; which Purpose may be fulfilled, when the other is opposed.Certainly 'tis not less absurd & unreasonable, to talk of God's Will and Desire's being truly and properly cross'd, without his suffering any Uneasiness, or any Thing grievous or disagreable, than it is to talk of something that may be called a revealed Will, which may in some Respect be different from a secret Purpose; which Purpose may be fulfilled, when the other is opposed.