The Works of President Edwards ...Isaac Sturtevant, Printer, 1808 - Congregational churches |
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... Whitby does Calvinistic Divines ; it proba- bly would not have been taken any better , or thought to shew a better temper , or more good manners . I have done as I would be done by , in this matter . However the term Calvinistic is , in ...
... Whitby does Calvinistic Divines ; it proba- bly would not have been taken any better , or thought to shew a better temper , or more good manners . I have done as I would be done by , in this matter . However the term Calvinistic is , in ...
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... Whitby ; he , in his discourse on the freedom of the Will , * opposes the opinion of the 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 ...
... Whitby ; he , in his discourse on the freedom of the Will , * opposes the opinion of the 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 ...
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... Whitby himself says , in a man's doing what he will ; and a man exercises this liberty , not only in external actions , but in the acts of the Will themselves ; then so far as liberty is exercised in the latter , it consists in willing ...
... Whitby himself says , in a man's doing what he will ; and a man exercises this liberty , not only in external actions , but in the acts of the Will themselves ; then so far as liberty is exercised in the latter , it consists in willing ...
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... Whitby , and some other Arminians , make a distinction of different kinds of freedom ; one of God , and perfect spirits above ; another of persons in a state of trial . The former Dr. Whitby allows to consist with necessity ; the latter ...
... Whitby , and some other Arminians , make a distinction of different kinds of freedom ; one of God , and perfect spirits above ; another of persons in a state of trial . The former Dr. Whitby allows to consist with necessity ; the latter ...
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... Whitby and Dr. Samuel Clark . Dr. Turnbull , though a great enemy to the doctrine of neces- sity , allows the same thing . In his Christian Philosophy , ( p . 196 ) he with much approbation cites another philosopher , as of the same ...
... Whitby and Dr. Samuel Clark . Dr. Turnbull , though a great enemy to the doctrine of neces- sity , allows the same thing . In his Christian Philosophy , ( p . 196 ) he with much approbation cites another philosopher , as of the same ...
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