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PRESIDENT EDWARDS:

IN TEN VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

CONTAINING,

1.

INQUIRY INTO THE FREEDOM OF THE WILL.
THE GREAT CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF ORIGINAL SIN DIFENDED.

II.

NEW YORK:

G. & C. & H. CARVILL.

1830.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

I. INQUIRY INTO THE FREEDOM OF THE WILL.

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Preface

PART I. Explanation of Terms, fc.

SECT. I. The Nature of the Will

11. What determines the Will

ur. The Nature of Necessity

iv. Of Natural and Moral Inability

y. Of Liberty and Moral Agency

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PART II. Concerning the Arminian Notion of Liberty.

Sect. 1. The Inconsistence of Arminian Liberiy

11. Supposed Evasions considered

III. No Event without a Cause

Iv. Volition not without a Cause

v. These Evasions Impertinent

vi. Of choosing in Things Indifferent

vir. Of Liberty of Indifference

VIII. Of Liberty without Necessity

IX. Will connected with Understanding

x. Acts connected with Motives

XI. God forekpows our Volitions

xi. Forekoowledge infers Necessity

XIII. Arminian Liberty Inconsistent

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PART III. Concerning Moral Agency, Virtue and Vice, $c.

SECT. I, God's moral excellency necessary

11. Christ's Volitions necessarily boly, &c.

11. Moral Necessity and Inability consistent

iv. Commands consistent with Moral Inability

v. Sincerity of Desires and Endeavours

vi. Indifference inconsistent with Virtue

VII. Arminian Notions of Moral Agency, &c.

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PART IV. On the Chief Grounds of the Reasoning of Arminians.

Sect. 1. Of the Essence of Virtue and Vice

11. Arminian Notion of Action, false

✓ m. Calvinism not against Common Sense

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Eet Tv Necessáry: Virtue agreeable to Common Sense

v. Endeavours consistent with Calvinism

vl. The charge of. Stoicism, &c. answered

viļ. Necessity.of Divine Volition

vult, Necessity of: Diyine Volition, continued

I of the existence of Sin, &c.

*. Concerning Sid's first entrance

xi. Of God's Moral character

XII. Supposed Tendency of Necessity

xiii. Concerning Abstruse Reasoning

xiv. The Conclusion

xv. Appendix

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II. ' THE GREAT CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF ORIGINAL SIN

DEFENDED.

PART I. Evidences of Original Sin from Facts and Events.

CHAP. I. The Evidence of the Doctrine from Facts.

SECT, 1. All men tend to Sin and Ruin

11. Universal Sin proves a sipful propensity

11. This tendency most corrupt and pernicious

iv. All men sin immediately, &c.

v. All have more Sin than 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

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

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

Sect. 1. Concerning Adam's original Righteousness

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II. Death threatened to our first parents

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111. Adam a federal Head, &c.

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CHAP. II. Observations on Texts, chiefly of the Old Testament, &c. 439

III. Observations on Texts, principally in the New Testament.

SECT. 1. Observations on John iii. 6.

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11. Observations on Rom. iji. 9--24.

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11. Observations on Rom. v. 5–10., Eph. ii. 3. &c. 464

CHAP. IV. Containing observations on Rom. v. 12, &c.

Sect. 1. Remarks on Dr. Taylor's way of explaining this

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1. The true scope of Rom. v. 1è, &c.

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PART III. Evidence of the Doctrine from Redemption by Christ.

CHAP. I. Proofs from Redemption by Christ

II. Proof from Application of Rederoption

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PART IV. Containing Answers to Objections.

CHAP. I. The Objection from the nature of Sin

I]. God not the Author of Sin

III. The imputation of Adam's sin stated

IV. Several other Objections answered

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