An Examination of President Edwards's Inquiry on the Freedom of the WillDurrie & Peck, 1841 - 340 Seiten |
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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 Efficacious Grace ence endeavors evidence evil excite existence explain external faculty foreknowledge free act freedom giving direction grace 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 causes moral inability moral necessity natural and moral neces necessary notion obedience object observes occasion of sin opinion opponents opposed opposition overruled particular 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 virtue virtuous voli Whitby word
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Seite 305 - O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Seite 335 - Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
Seite 306 - 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 301 - 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 302 - 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.