The Works of President Edwards ...Isaac Sturtevant, Printer, 1808 - Congregational churches |
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Page 115
... absurd , to suppose Motive to be a cause of the act of the Will . And if we compare these things together , we have here a- gain a whole heap of inconsistencies . Motives are the pre- vious ground and reason of the acts of the Will ...
... absurd , to suppose Motive to be a cause of the act of the Will . And if we compare these things together , we have here a- gain a whole heap of inconsistencies . Motives are the pre- vious ground and reason of the acts of the Will ...
Page 138
... absurd . affirm it , would be the same thing as to affirm , that there is no necessary connexion between a proposition's being infalli- bly known to be true , and its being true indeed . So that it is perfectly demonstrable , that if ...
... absurd . affirm it , would be the same thing as to affirm , that there is no necessary connexion between a proposition's being infalli- bly known to be true , and its being true indeed . So that it is perfectly demonstrable , that if ...
Page 380
... absurd ; for nothing can be a cause of that existence , which is before the existence of that cause . What an absurdity is it , to sup- pose that that existence which is an effect , is effected by a cause , when that cause that effects ...
... absurd ; for nothing can be a cause of that existence , which is before the existence of that cause . What an absurdity is it , to sup- pose that that existence which is an effect , is effected by a cause , when that cause that effects ...
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