The Works of President Edwards ...Isaac Sturtevant, Printer, 1808 - Congregational churches |
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Page 67
... implies that gross contradiction , that the first free act belonging to the affair , is determined by a free act which is before it . Or if they say that the free acts of the Will are determined by some other act of the soul , and not ...
... implies that gross contradiction , that the first free act belonging to the affair , is determined by a free act which is before it . Or if they say that the free acts of the Will are determined by some other act of the soul , and not ...
Page 83
... implying a state of Indifference , or whether the soul ever exerts an act of choice or preference , while at that very time the Will is in a perfect equilibrium , not inclining one way more than another . The very putting of the ...
... implying a state of Indifference , or whether the soul ever exerts an act of choice or preference , while at that very time the Will is in a perfect equilibrium , not inclining one way more than another . The very putting of the ...
Page 84
... implies Indifference , can denomi- nate nothing free , at the first moment of preference or pre- ponderation . Therefore it is manifest , that no Liberty of which the soul is possessed , or ever uses , in any of its acts of volition ...
... implies Indifference , can denomi- nate nothing free , at the first moment of preference or pre- ponderation . Therefore it is manifest , that no Liberty of which the soul is possessed , or ever uses , in any of its acts of volition ...
Page 85
... imply preference in it , but is what the Will does in order to causing or producing a preference , is as much as to say , the soul chooses ( for to will and to choose are the same thing ) without choice , and prefers without preference ...
... imply preference in it , but is what the Will does in order to causing or producing a preference , is as much as to say , the soul chooses ( for to will and to choose are the same thing ) without choice , and prefers without preference ...
Page 95
... and can be otherwise in no instance : Because it is asserted , that it implies a contradiction , to suppose it ever to be other- wise . 1 I am sensible the Doctor's aim in these assertions FREEDOM OF THE WILL . FREEDOM 95.
... and can be otherwise in no instance : Because it is asserted , that it implies a contradiction , to suppose it ever to be other- wise . 1 I am sensible the Doctor's aim in these assertions FREEDOM OF THE WILL . FREEDOM 95.
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