The Works of President Edwards ...Isaac Sturtevant, Printer, 1808 - Congregational churches |
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... speaks of uneasiness as determining the Will , he must be understood as supposing that the end or aim which governs ... speak of the direct and immediate object of the act of volition ; and not some object that the act of Will has not an ...
... speaks of uneasiness as determining the Will , he must be understood as supposing that the end or aim which governs ... speak of the direct and immediate object of the act of volition ; and not some object that the act of Will has not an ...
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... speak , then he chooses to speak : If it suits him best to keep silence , then he chooses to keep silence . There is scarcely a plainer and more universal dictate of the sense and experience of man- kind , than that , when men act ...
... speak , then he chooses to speak : If it suits him best to keep silence , then he chooses to keep silence . There is scarcely a plainer and more universal dictate of the sense and experience of man- kind , than that , when men act ...
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... speak of any thing as necessa- ry to us , it is with relation to some supposable opposition of our Wills , or some voluntary exertion or effort of ours to the contrary : For we do not properly make opposition to an event , any otherwise ...
... speak of any thing as necessa- ry to us , it is with relation to some supposable opposition of our Wills , or some voluntary exertion or effort of ours to the contrary : For we do not properly make opposition to an event , any otherwise ...
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... speak not now of the certainty of JEJ knowledge , but the certainty that is in things themselves , which is the foundation of the certainty of the knowledge of them ; or that wherein lies the ground of the infallibility of the ...
... speak not now of the certainty of JEJ knowledge , but the certainty that is in things themselves , which is the foundation of the certainty of the knowledge of them ; or that wherein lies the ground of the infallibility of the ...
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... speak good sense ; if we judge of sense , and nonsense , by the original and proper sig- nification of words . For the will itself is not an Agent that has a will : The power of choosing itself , has not a power of choosing . That which ...
... speak good sense ; if we judge of sense , and nonsense , by the original and proper sig- nification of words . For the will itself is not an Agent that has a will : The power of choosing itself , has not a power of choosing . That which ...
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