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Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will

Published: 1754
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A careful and strict enquiry into the modern prevailing notions of that freedom of will, which is supposed to be essential to moral agency, vertue and vice, reward and punishment, praise and blame. By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. Pastor of the church in Stockbridge. ; [One line from Romans]

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Boston, N.E. Printed and sold by S. Kneeland, in Queen-Street. MDCCLIV. [1754]

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Front matter
Title page
Preface
Table of contentsA General TABLE Of the CONTENTS.
Part 1PART I. Wherein are explain'd various Terms and Things belonging to the Subject of the ensuing Discourse.
Part 2PART II. Wherein it is considered, Whether there is, or can be any such Sort of FREEDOM OF WILL, as that…
Part 3PART III. Wherein is enquired, Whether any such Liberty of Will as Arminians hold, be necessary to moral…
Part 4PART IV. Wherein the chief Grounds of the Reasonings of Arminians, in Support and Defence of their Notions…
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Part 1PART I. Wherein are explained and stated various Terms and Things belonging to the Subject of the ensuing…
Section 1SECTION I. Concerning the Nature of the Will.
Section 2SECTION II. Concerning the Determination of the Will.
Section 3SECTION III. Concerning the Meaning of the Terms Necessity, Impossibility, Inability, and of Contingence.
Section 4SECTION IV. Of the Distinction of natural and moral Necessity, and Inability.
Section 5SECTION V. Concerning the Notion of Liberty, and of moral Agency.
Part 2PART II. Wherein it is considered whether there is or can be any such Sort of FREEDOM OF WILL, as that…
Section 1SECTION I. Shewing the manifest Inconsistence of the Arminian Notion of Liberty of Will, consisting in the…
Section 2SECTION II. Several supposed Ways of evading the foregoing Reasoning, considered.

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Author: Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758)
Imprint: Boston, N.E. Printed and sold by S. Kneeland, in Queen-Street. MDCCLIV. [1754]
Extent: [2], vi, [4], 294, [14] p. ; 20 cm. (8vo)
Language: English
Catalogue: Evans 7187
Source: TCP N05663
Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Text Creation Partnership)

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Section 3SECTION III. Whether any Event whatsoever, and Volition in particular, can come to pass without a Cause of…

Section 4SECTION IV. Whether Volition can arise without a Cause, through the Activity of the Nature of the Soul.

Section 5SECTION V. Shewing, that if the Things asserted in these Evasions should be supposed to be true, they are…

Section 6SECTION VI. Concerning the Will's determining in Things which are perfectly indifferent, in the View of the…

Section 7SECTION VII. Concerning the Notion of Liberty of Will consisting in Indifference.

Section 8SECTION VIII. Concerning the supposed Liberty of the Will, as opposite to all Necessity.

Section 9SECTION IX. Of the Connection of the Acts of the Will with the Dictates of the Understanding.

Section 10SECTION X. Volition necessarily connected with the Influence of Motives; with particular Observations on…

Section 11SECTION XI. The Evidence of GOD's certain Foreknowledge of the Volitions of moral Agents.

Section 12SECTION XII. GOD's certain Foreknowledge of the future Volitions of moral Agents, inconsistent with such a…

Section 13SECTION XIII. Whether we suppose the Volitions of moral Agents to be connected with any Thing antecedent,…

Part 3PART III. Wherein is enquired, whether any such Liberty of Will as Arminians hold, be necessary to MORAL…

Section 1SECTION I. GOD's moral Excellency necessary, yet vertuous and praise-worthy.

Section 2SECTION II. The Acts of the Will of the human Soul of JESUS CHRIST necessarily holy, yet truly vertuous,…

Section 3SECTION III. The Case of such as are given up of God to Sin, and of fallen Man in general, proves moral…

Section 4SECTION IV. Command, and Obligation to Obedience, consistent with moral Inability to obey.

Section 5SECTION V. That Sincerity of Desires and Endeavours, which is supposed to excuse in the Non-performance of…

Section 6SECTION VI. Liberty of Indifference, not only not necessary to Vertue, but utterly inconsistent with it;…

Section 7SECTION VII. Arminian Notions of moral Agency inconsistent with all Influence of Motive and Inducement, in…

Part 4PART IV. Wherein the chief Grounds of the Reasonings of Arminians, in Support and Defence of the…

Section 1SECTION I. The Essence of the Vertue and Vice of Dispositions of the Heart, and Acts of the Will, lies not…

Section 2SECTION II. The Falseness and Inconsistence of that metaphysical Notion of Action, and Agency, which seems…

Section 3SECTION III. The Reasons why some think it contrary to common Sense, to suppose those Things which are…

Section 4SECTION IV. It is agreable to common Sense, and the natural Notions of Mankind, to suppose moral Necessity…

Section 5SECTION V. Concerning those Objections, that this Scheme of Necessity renders all Means and Endeavours for…

Section 6SECTION VI. Concerning that Objection against the Doctrine which has been maintain'd, that it agrees with…

Section 7SECTION VII. Concerning the Necessity of the Divine Will.

Section 8SECTION VIII. Some further Objections against the moral Necessity of GOD'S Volitions considered.

Section 9SECTION IX. Concerning that Objection against the Doctrine which has been maintain'd, that it makes GOD the…

Section 10SECTION X. Concerning Sin's first Entrance into the World.

Section 11SECTION XI. Of a supposed Inconsistence of these Principles, with GOD's moral Character.

Section 12SECTION XII. Of a supposed Tendency of these Principles to Atheism and Licentiousness.

Section 13SECTION XIII. Concerning that Objection against the Reasoning, by which the Calvinistic Doctrine is…

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