The Works of President Edwards in Four Volumes: A Reprint of the Worcester Edition, with Valuable Additions and a Copious General Index, Volume 2Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1844 |
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... evident , is , that the mind chooses one action rather than another . And therefore the arguments which they bring , in order to be to their purpose , ought to be to prove that the mind chooses the action in perfect indifference , with ...
... evident , is , that the mind chooses one action rather than another . And therefore the arguments which they bring , in order to be to their purpose , ought to be to prove that the mind chooses the action in perfect indifference , with ...
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... evident than that , when men act volun- tarily , and do what they please , then they do what appears most agreeable to them ; and to say otherwise , would be as much as to affirm , that men do not choose what appears to suit them best ...
... evident than that , when men act volun- tarily , and do what they please , then they do what appears most agreeable to them ; and to say otherwise , would be as much as to affirm , that men do not choose what appears to suit them best ...
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... evident by this , that every act of the Will whatsoever is excited by some Motive : which is manifest , because , if the Will or mind , in willing and choosing after the manner that it does , is excited so to do by no motive or ...
... evident by this , that every act of the Will whatsoever is excited by some Motive : which is manifest , because , if the Will or mind , in willing and choosing after the manner that it does , is excited so to do by no motive or ...
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... evident , namely , that what we call moral causes , strictly speaking , are no causes at all , but barely passive reasons of , or excitements to the action , or to the refraining from acting : which excitements we have power , or are at ...
... evident , namely , that what we call moral causes , strictly speaking , are no causes at all , but barely passive reasons of , or excitements to the action , or to the refraining from acting : which excitements we have power , or are at ...
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... evident , he means not only external actions , but the acts of choice themselves , when he speaks of all free actions , as the PRODUCE of free choice . And this is abundantly evident in what he says in p . 372 , 373 . Now these things ...
... evident , he means not only external actions , but the acts of choice themselves , when he speaks of all free actions , as the PRODUCE of free choice . And this is abundantly evident in what he says in p . 372 , 373 . Now these things ...
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Page 216 - In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation : in whom also, after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
Page 69 - I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair : I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
Page 322 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
Page 75 - For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
Page 406 - Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit ; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Page 225 - When he gave to the sea his decree that the waters should not pass his commandment. When he appointed the foundations of the earth., then I was by him, as one brought up with him, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him, rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and my delights were with the sons of men.
Page 600 - Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
Page 68 - I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, And will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, And give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles ; To open the blind eyes, To bring out the prisoners from the prison, And them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
Page 164 - For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
Page 210 - And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; that ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ; being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.