The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life ...G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1830 - Congregational churches |
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... exercises or acts of will of that kind , through a fixed and habitual incli- nation , or an habitual and stated defect , or want of a certain kind of inclination . Thus a very ill - natured man may be un- able to exert such acts of ...
... exercises or acts of will of that kind , through a fixed and habitual incli- nation , or an habitual and stated defect , or want of a certain kind of inclination . Thus a very ill - natured man may be un- able to exert such acts of ...
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... exercise of that faculty . So when it is said , the will decides or determines , the meaning must be , that the person in the exercise of a Power of willing and choosing , or the soul acting voluntarily , determines . Therefore , if the ...
... exercise of that faculty . So when it is said , the will decides or determines , the meaning must be , that the person in the exercise of a Power of willing and choosing , or the soul acting voluntarily , determines . Therefore , if the ...
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... exercise of that power , determines it , that is the same thing as for the soul to determine volition by an act of will . For an exercise of the power of will , and an act of that power , are the same thing . Therefore to say , that the ...
... exercise of that power , determines it , that is the same thing as for the soul to determine volition by an act of will . For an exercise of the power of will , and an act of that power , are the same thing . Therefore to say , that the ...
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... exercise of the will in determining its own acts , then no liberty is exercised in determining them . From whence it follows , that no liberty consists in the will's power to deter- mine its own acts : or , which is the same thing ...
... exercise of the will in determining its own acts , then no liberty is exercised in determining them . From whence it follows , that no liberty consists in the will's power to deter- mine its own acts : or , which is the same thing ...
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... exercise of his activity , and so nothing but the fruits of its exercise : he brings nothing to pass by a dormant activity . But the exer cise of his activity is action ; and so his 56 PART II . FREEDOM OF THE WILL .
... exercise of his activity , and so nothing but the fruits of its exercise : he brings nothing to pass by a dormant activity . But the exer cise of his activity is action ; and so his 56 PART II . FREEDOM OF THE WILL .
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Page 440 - But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.
Page 146 - And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the beasts and the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing.
Page 315 - For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Page 450 - For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Page 558 - The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Page 473 - 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...
Page 289 - 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 503 - For until the law sin was in the world : but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of Him that was to come.
Page 433 - And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.
Page 442 - I am the son of thy servant Jesse the Beth-lehemite. And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.