The Works of President Edwards ...Isaac Sturtevant, Printer, 1808 - Congregational churches |
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... Calvinistic is , in these days , among most , a term of greater reproach than the term Arminian ; yet I should not take it at all amiss , to be call- ed a Calvinist , for distinction's sake : Though I utterly disclaim a dependence on ...
... Calvinistic is , in these days , among most , a term of greater reproach than the term Arminian ; yet I should not take it at all amiss , to be call- ed a Calvinist , for distinction's sake : Though I utterly disclaim a dependence on ...
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... Calvinists . If the Author of that Essay be the same as it is commonly ascribed to , he , doubtless , was not one that ought to bear that name . But however good a divine he was in many respects , yet that particular Arminian doctrine ...
... Calvinists . If the Author of that Essay be the same as it is commonly ascribed to , he , doubtless , was not one that ought to bear that name . But however good a divine he was in many respects , yet that particular Arminian doctrine ...
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... Calvinists , has an entirely different significa- tion .... These several things belong to their notion of Liberty . 1. That it consists in a selfdetermining power in the will , or a certain sovereignty the will has over itself , and ...
... Calvinists , has an entirely different significa- tion .... These several things belong to their notion of Liberty . 1. That it consists in a selfdetermining power in the will , or a certain sovereignty the will has over itself , and ...
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... Calvin- ists , who place man's liberty only in a power of doing what he will , as that wherein they plainly agree with Mr. Hobbes . And yet he himself mentions the very same notion of liberty , as the dictate of the sense and common ...
... Calvin- ists , who place man's liberty only in a power of doing what he will , as that wherein they plainly agree with Mr. Hobbes . And yet he himself mentions the very same notion of liberty , as the dictate of the sense and common ...
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... Calvinists have ; which he at the same time condemns , as agreeing with the opinion of Mr. Hobbes , namely , the soul's acting by its own choice , men's doing good or evil according to their own free choice , their being in that exer ...
... Calvinists have ; which he at the same time condemns , as agreeing with the opinion of Mr. Hobbes , namely , the soul's acting by its own choice , men's doing good or evil according to their own free choice , their being in that exer ...
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