The Works of President Edwards ...Isaac Sturtevant, Printer, 1808 - Congregational churches |
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... choosing : An act of the Will is the same as an act of choosing or choice . If any think it is a more perfect definition of the Will , to say , that it is that by which the soul either chooses or refuses ; I am content with it : Though ...
... choosing : An act of the Will is the same as an act of choosing or choice . If any think it is a more perfect definition of the Will , to say , that it is that by which the soul either chooses or refuses ; I am content with it : Though ...
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... act of refusal , the mind chooses the absence of the thing refused ; the positive and the negative are set before the mind for its choice , and it chooses the negative ; and the mind's making its choice in that case is properly the act ...
... act of refusal , the mind chooses the absence of the thing refused ; the positive and the negative are set before the mind for its choice , and it chooses the negative ; and the mind's making its choice in that case is properly the act ...
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... Preference and Volition be precisely the same things or no ; yet , I trust it will be allowed by all , that in every act of Will there is an act of choice ; that in every volition there is a preference , or a prevailing inclina tion of ...
... Preference and Volition be precisely the same things or no ; yet , I trust it will be allowed by all , that in every act of Will there is an act of choice ; that in every volition there is a preference , or a prevailing inclina tion of ...
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... act of preference , is the avoiding or removal of that uneasiness ; and that ... choice now decides , are his own acts , in drinking the liquor , or letting ... act of volition may relate more remotely , and between which his choice may ...
... act of preference , is the avoiding or removal of that uneasiness ; and that ... choice now decides , are his own acts , in drinking the liquor , or letting ... act of volition may relate more remotely , and between which his choice may ...
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... act of volition spoken of is nextly conversant about . For the act of Will ... choice he makes in the case , he prefers a present pleas- ure to a future ... choice , is determined by that which appears most agreeable , than that the ...
... act of volition spoken of is nextly conversant about . For the act of Will ... choice he makes in the case , he prefers a present pleas- ure to a future ... choice , is determined by that which appears most agreeable , than that the ...
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