The Works of President Edwards ...Isaac Sturtevant, Printer, 1808 - Congregational churches |
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... choice , and it chooses the negative ; and the mind's making its choice in that case is properly the act of the Will ; the Will's determining between the two is a voluntary determining ; but that is the same thing as making a choice ...
... choice , and it chooses the negative ; and the mind's making its choice in that case is properly the act of the Will ; the Will's determining between the two is a voluntary determining ; but that is the same thing as making a choice ...
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... choice should be thus , and not otherwise : And the Will is said to be determined , when , in consequence of some ac- tion or influence , its choice is directed to , and fixed upon a particular object . As when we speak of the ...
... choice should be thus , and not otherwise : And the Will is said to be determined , when , in consequence of some ac- tion or influence , its choice is directed to , and fixed upon a particular object . As when we speak of the ...
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... choice , is what I call the strongest motive . And in this sense , I suppose the Will is always determined by the strongest motive . Things that exist in the view of the mind have their strength , tendency or advantage to move or excite ...
... choice , is what I call the strongest motive . And in this sense , I suppose the Will is always determined by the strongest motive . Things that exist in the view of the mind have their strength , tendency or advantage to move or excite ...
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... choice now decides , are his own acts , in drinking the liquor , or letting it alone ; and this will certainly be done according to what , in the present view of his mind , taken in the whole of it , is most agreeable to him . If he ...
... choice now decides , are his own acts , in drinking the liquor , or letting it alone ; and this will certainly be done according to what , in the present view of his mind , taken in the whole of it , is most agreeable to him . If he ...
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... choice , is determined by that which appears most agreeable , than that the preference or choice itself is ; but that the act of volition itself is al ways determined by that in or about the mind's view of the object , which causes it ...
... choice , is determined by that which appears most agreeable , than that the preference or choice itself is ; but that the act of volition itself is al ways determined by that in or about the mind's view of the object , which causes it ...
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