The Works of President Edwards ...Isaac Sturtevant, Printer, 1808 - Congregational churches |
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Page 8
... true knowledge of both must be needful , in order to true religion . But the knowledge of ourselves consists chiefly in right apprehensions concerning those two chief faculties of our nature , the Understanding and Will . Both are very ...
... true knowledge of both must be needful , in order to true religion . But the knowledge of ourselves consists chiefly in right apprehensions concerning those two chief faculties of our nature , the Understanding and Will . Both are very ...
Page 15
... true , in some sense , that the Will always is as the greatest apparent good is . For the right un- derstanding of this , two things must be well and distinctly observed . 1. It must be observed in what sense I use the term good ...
... true , in some sense , that the Will always is as the greatest apparent good is . For the right un- derstanding of this , two things must be well and distinctly observed . 1. It must be observed in what sense I use the term good ...
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... true , that the Will always follows the last dictate of the understanding . Such a dictate of reason is quite a different matter from things appearing now most agreeable ; all things being put together which pertain to the mind's ...
... true , that the Will always follows the last dictate of the understanding . Such a dictate of reason is quite a different matter from things appearing now most agreeable ; all things being put together which pertain to the mind's ...
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... true . When there is such a connexion , then the thing affirmed in the proposition is necessary , in a philosophi- cal sense ; whether any opposition , or contrary effort be sup- posed , or supposable in the case , or no . When the ...
... true . When there is such a connexion , then the thing affirmed in the proposition is necessary , in a philosophi- cal sense ; whether any opposition , or contrary effort be sup- posed , or supposable in the case , or no . When the ...
Page 27
... true . The past event has fixed and decided the mat- ter , as to its existence ; and has made it impossible but that existence should be truly predicated of it . Thus the exist- ence of whatever is already come to pass , is now become ...
... true . The past event has fixed and decided the mat- ter , as to its existence ; and has made it impossible but that existence should be truly predicated of it . Thus the exist- ence of whatever is already come to pass , is now become ...
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