An Examination of President Edwards's Inquiry on the Freedom of the WillDurrie & Peck, 1841 - 340 páginas |
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An Examination of President Edwards's Inquiry on the Freedom of the Will Jeremiah Day Visualização integral - 1841 |
An Examination of President Edwards's Inquiry on the Freedom of the Will Jeremiah Day Visualização integral - 1841 |
An Examination of President Edwards's Inquiry on the Freedom of the Will Jeremiah Day Visualização integral - 1841 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
according to Edwards accountable action acts of choice admitted agent agreeable antecedent applied argument Arminian called Calvinists cause of volition certainty choose command common sense connection consequence considered consists contingent contrary creatures definition dependent determined distinction divine doctrine Edwards's effect ence endeavors evidence evil excite excuse existence external faculty foreknowledge free act freedom giving direction grace heart holiness ical imperative acts imperative volitions implies inclination inconsistent indifference induce infallible infinite wisdom influence inquiry JEREMIAH DAY liberty man's means metaphysical mind moral agency moral inability moral necessity moved by natural natural and moral natural inability neces necessary notion obedience object observes occasion of sin opponents opposition philosophical point of inquiry preceding prescience present President Edwards principles purpose reason respect Samuel Clarke says Edwards scriptures shew signification sincere soul strength strongest motive suppose supposition tendency term thing tion true truth unless virtue virtuous voli Whitby word
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Página 235 - O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Página 236 - O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea...
Página 77 - For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me ; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel...
Página 10 - I think evident, that we find in ourselves a power to begin or forbear, continue or end, several actions of our minds and motions of our bodies, barely by a thought or preference of the mind ordering, or, as it were, commanding the doing or not doing such or such a particular action.
Página 83 - Pelagians and others, who oppose the Calvinists, has an entirely different signification. These several things belong to their notion of Liberty. 1. That it consists in a self-determining power in the will, or a certain sovereignty the will has over itself...
Página 17 - BY determining the Will-, if the phrase be used with any meaning, must be intended, causing that the act of the Will or choice should be thus, and not otherwise : And the Will is said to be determined, when, in consequence of some action or influence, its choice is directed to, and fixed upon a particular object.
Página 231 - For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together, 28 For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
Página 99 - ... —.That whatsoever begins to be, which before was not, must have a Cause why it then begins to exist, seems to be the first dictate of the common and natural sense which God hath implanted in the minds of all mankind, and the main foundation of all our reasonings about the existence of things, past, present, or to come.
Página 232 - And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD.
Página 120 - Cause, in this inquiry, to signify any antecedent, either natural or moral, positive or negative, on which an Event, either a thing, or the manner and circumstance of a thing, so depends, that it is the ground and reason, either in whole, or in part, why it is, rather than not ; or why it is as it is, rather than otherwise...
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Jonathan Edwards, 1703-1758: A Biography, Volume 62;Volume 831 Ola Elizabeth Winslow Visualização de excertos - 1940 |