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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
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[N. B. The Capital P. signifies the Part; this Mark, §, the Section; Concl. the Conclusion; and the small p. the Page; where the Things here specified, are to be found.]
Abstracted or Abstruse Reasoning, whether justly objected against Calvinists, P. 4. § 13. p. 278. Action, Inconsistence of the Arminian Notion of it, P. 4. § 2. p. 199. and whence this arose, p. 204. what it is in the common Notion of it, Ibid. p. 201. —and how distinguished from Passion, Ibid. p. 203. Activity of the Nature of the Soul, whether thro' this, Volition can arise without a Cause, P. 2. § 4. p. 47. Apparent Good, the greatest, in what Sense it determines the Will, P. 1. § 2. p. 7. Arminians, obliged to talk inconsistently, P. 2. § 5. p. 53. Ibid. § 7. p. 70. §. 9. p. 77. where the main Strength of their pretended Demonstrations lies, P. 4. § 4. p. 219. Their Objection from God's moral Character, considered and retorted, Ibid. § 11. p. 271, 2. Arminian Doctrine, its Tendency to supersede all Use of Means, and make Endeavours vain, P. 4. § 5. p. 222. and in Effect, to exclude all Virtue and Vice out of the World, P. 3. § 4. p. 161, 167. Ibid. § 6. p. 184. and § 7. p. 190. P. 4. § 1. p. 196, 7. Ibid. § 12. p. 276. Atheism, the supposed Tendency of Calvinistic Principles to it, P. 4. § 12. p. 274. How Arminian Principles tend to it, Ibid. p. 275. Attending to Motives, of Liberty's being supposed to consist in an Ability for it, P. 2. § 9. p. 80. Atonement. See CHRIST. Author of Sin, whether it would follow from the Doctrine here maintained, that GOD is so, P. 4. § 9. p. 252. Blame-worthiness, wherein it consists, according to common Sense, P. 4. § 4. p. 212. ⟨image ?⟩Calvinism, consistent with common Sense, P. 4. § 3. p. 206. Cause, how the Word is used in this Discourse, P. 2. § 3. p. 41. No Event without one, P. 2. § 3. p. 42.— and Effect, a necessary Connection between them, P. 2. § 8. p. 73.-This respects moral, as well as natural Causes, P. 2. § 3. p. 41. Christ, his Obedience necessary, yet virtuous and praiseworthy, P. 3. § 1. p. 139. His Atonement excluded in Consequence of Arminian Principles, P. 3. § 3. p. 158. Chubb (Mr.) the Inconsistence of his Scheme of Liberty, &c. P. 2. § 9. p. 85,—98. Commands, consistent with moral Necessity and Inability, P. 3. § 4. p. 159. P. 4. § 11. p. 270. Inconsistent with Arminian Principles, P. 3. § 4. p. 161. Common Sense, why the Principles maintained in this Discourse, appear to some contrary to it, P. 4. § 3. p. 206. Necessary Virtue & Vice agreeable to it, P. 4. § 4. p. 212.— Arminian Tenets opposite to it, P.