The Works of President Edwards ...Isaac Sturtevant, Printer, 1808 - Congregational churches |
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... principle of mind by which it is capable of 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 ...
... principle of mind by which it is capable of 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 ...
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... principle of motion and action , different from that established law and order of things which is most obvious , that is seen especially in corporeal and sensi- ble things ; and also the choice often interposes , interrupts and alters ...
... principle of motion and action , different from that established law and order of things which is most obvious , that is seen especially in corporeal and sensi- ble things ; and also the choice often interposes , interrupts and alters ...
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... principles of nature , whereby He is capable of moral Agency . Herein very much consists the natural image of God ; as his spiritual and moral image , wherein man was made at first , consisted in that moral excellency , that he was ...
... principles of nature , whereby He is capable of moral Agency . Herein very much consists the natural image of God ; as his spiritual and moral image , wherein man was made at first , consisted in that moral excellency , that he was ...
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... principles , in this act too , the Will is self- determined ; that is , this , in like manner , is an act that the soul voluntarily chooses ; or , which is the same thing , it is an act determined still by a preceding act of the Will ...
... principles , in this act too , the Will is self- determined ; that is , this , in like manner , is an act that the soul voluntarily chooses ; or , which is the same thing , it is an act determined still by a preceding act of the Will ...
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... principle of common sense be taken away , all arguing from effects to Causes ceaseth , and so all knowl- edge of any existence , besides what we have by the most di- rect and immediate intuition . Particularly all our proof of the being ...
... principle of common sense be taken away , all arguing from effects to Causes ceaseth , and so all knowl- edge of any existence , besides what we have by the most di- rect and immediate intuition . Particularly all our proof of the being ...
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