CHICAGO | IBRA

WORKS

OF

PRESIDENT EDWARDS.

En Four Volumes.

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VOL. II.

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CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

1. A CAREFUL AND STRICT INQUIRY INTO THE PREVAILING NO-

TIONS OF THE FREEDOM OF THE WILL.

PART I. Wherein are explained and stated various terms and things belonging

to the subject of the ensuing Discourse

SECT. I. Concerning the Nature of the Will

11. Concerning the Determination of the Will

III. Concerning the meaning of the terms, Necessity, Impossibility, Inabili-

ty, &c., and of Contingence

IV. Of the distinction of natural and moral Necessity, and Inability

v. Concerning the notion of Liberty, and of moral Agency.

PART II. Wherein it is considered, whether there is or can be any such sort

of Freedom of Will, as that wherein Arminians place the essence of the

Liberty of all Moral Agents; and whether any such thing ever was or

can be conceived of.

SECT. 1. Showing the manifest inconsistence of the Arminian notion of Liberty

of Will, consisting in the Will's self-determining Power

П. Several supposed ways of evading the foregoing reasoning, considered

III. Whether any Event whatsoever, and Volition in particular, can come

to pass without a Cause of its existence

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IV. Whether Volition can arise without a Cause, through the activity of the

nature of the soul

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v. Showing, that if the things asserted in these Evasions should be supposed

to be true, they are altogether impertinent, and cannot help the cause of

Arminian Liberty; and how, this being the state of the case, Arminian

writers are obliged to talk inconsistently

VI. Concerning the Will determining in things which are perfectly indiffer-

ent in the view of the mind

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VII. Concerning the notion of Liberty of Will, consisting in Indifference

VIII. Concerning the supposed Liberty of the Will, as opposite to all Necessity 45

IX. Of the Connection of the Acts of the Will with the Dictates of the

Understanding

I. Volition necessarily connected with the influence of Motives: with par-

ticular observations of the great inconsistence of Mr. Chubb's assertions

and reasonings about the Freedom of the Will

II. The evidence of God's certain Foreknowledge of the Volitions of moral

Agents

XII. God's certain Foreknowledge of the future volitions of moral agents.

inconsistent with such a Contingence of those volitions as is without all

Necessity

XIII. Whether we suppose the volitions of moral Agents to be connected

with any thing antecedent, or not, yet they must be necessary in such a

sense as to overthrow Arminian Liberty

PART III. Wherein is inquired, whether any such Liberty of Will as Arminians

hold be necessary to Moral Agency, Virtue and Vice, Praise and Dis-

praise, &c.

SECT. 1. God's moral Excellency necessary, yet virtuous and praiseworthy

II. The Acts of the Will of the human soul of Jesus Christ, necessarily holy,

yet truly virtuous, praiseworthy, rewardable, &c.

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III. The case of such as are given up of God to sin, and of fallen man in

general, proves moral Necessity and Inability to be consistent with

Blameworthiness

IV. Command and Obligation to Obedience, consistent with moral İnability

to obey

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v. That Sincerity of Desires and Endeavors, which is supposed to excuse in

the non-performance of things in themselves good, particularly considered 105

VI. Liberty of indifference, not only not necessary to Virtue, but utterly

inconsistent with it; and all, either virtuous or vicious habits or inclina-

tions, inconsistent with Arminian notions of Liberty and moral Agency 110

VII. Arminian notions of moral Agency inconsistent with all influence of

Motive and Inducement, in either virtuous or vicious actions

PART IV. Wherein the chief grounds of the reasonings of Arminians, in sup-

port and defence of the forementioned notions of Liberty, Moral Agency,

&c., and against the opposite doctrine, are considered

SEOT. I. The Essence of the virtue and vice of dispositions of the heart, and

acts of the Will, lies not in their Cause, but their Nature

II. The Falseness and Inconsistence of that metaphysical notion of Action,

and Agency, which seems to be generally entertained by the defenders

of the Arminian Doctrine concerning Liberty, moral Agency, &c.

III. The reasons why some think it contrary to common Sense, to suppose

those things which are necessary to be worthy of either Praiser lame 127

IV. It is agreeable to common sense, and the natural notions of mankind, to

suppose moral Necessity to be consistent with Praise and Blame, Reward

and Punishment

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v. Objections, that this scheme of Necessity renders all Means and Endeavors

for avoiding Sin, or obtaining Virtue and Holiness, vain, and to no pur-

pose; and that it makes men no more than mere machines, in affairs of

morality and religion, answered

VI. Concerning that objection against the doctrine which has been main-

tained, that it agrees with the Stoical doctrine of Fate, and the opinions

of Mr. Hobbes

VII. Concerning the Necessity of the Divine Will

VIII. Some further objections against the moral Necessity of God's Volitions

considered

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IX. Concerning that objection against the doctrine which has been main-

tained, that it makes God the author of Sin

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x. Concerning Sin's first Entrance into the World

XI. Of a supposed Inconsistence between these principles and God's moral

character

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XII. Of a supposed tendency of these principles to Atheism and Licentious-

XIII. Concerning that objection against the reasoning, by which the Calvin-

istic doctrine is supposed, that it is metaphysical and abstruse

The Conclusion

Remarks on the Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion,

in a Letter to a minister of the Church of Scotland

II. DISSERTATION ON THE END FOR WHICH GOD CREATED THE

WORLD.

Introduction-Explanation of terms

CHAP. I. What Reason dictates concerning this affair

SECT. I. The general dictates of reason

II. What Reason supposes

III. How God regards himself

IV. Some objections considered

CHAP. II. What may be learned from the Holy Scriptures

SECT. 1. Scripture makes God his last end

II. Concerning a just method of arguing

III. Particular texts of Scripture

III. A DISSERTATION ON THE NATURE OF TRUE VIRTUE.

VI. Men's proneness to extreme stupidity, &c.

VII. Generality of mankind, wicked

VIII. Great means used to oppose wickedness

IX. Several evasions considered

CHAP. II. Arguments from universal Mortality

PART II. Proots of the Doctrine from particular parts of Scripture

CHAP. I. Observations on the three first Chapters of Genesis

SECT. I. Concerning Adain's original righteousness

II. Death threatened to our first parents

III. Adam a federal head, &c.

CHAP. II. Observations on Texts, chiefly of the Old Testament, &c.

III. Observations on Texts, principally in the New Testament

SECT. 1. Observations on John iii. 6. .

II. Observations on Rom. iii. 9-24.

II. Observations on Rom. v. 6-10, Eph. ii. 3, &c..
CHAP. IV. Containing observations on Rom. v. 12, &c.

SECT. 1. Remarks on Dr. Taylors's way of explaining this text
II. The true scope of Rom. v. 12, &c.

PART III. Evidence of the Doctrine from Redemption by Christ
CHAP. I. Proofs from Redemption by Christ

II. Proofs from Application of Redemption

PART IV Containing Answers to Objections

CHAP. 1 The Objection from the Nature of Sin

T. God not the Author of Sin

III. The Imputation of Adam's Sin stated

IV. Several other Ojections answered

V. MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS.

Concerning the Divine Decrees in general, and Election in particular

Concerning Efficacious Grace.

Observations Concerning Faith

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