The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life ...G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1830 - Congregational churches |
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... proper state , that the soul preferring or choosing such an immediate exertion or al- teration of the body , such an alteration instantaneously fol- lows . There is nothing else in the actions of my mind , that I am conscious of while I ...
... proper state , that the soul preferring or choosing such an immediate exertion or al- teration of the body , such an alteration instantaneously fol- lows . There is nothing else in the actions of my mind , that I am conscious of while I ...
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... proper objects of the several acts of the Will , it will not appear by this , and such like in- stances , that there is any difference between volition and pre- ference ; or that a man's choosing , liking best , or being best pleased ...
... proper objects of the several acts of the Will , it will not appear by this , and such like in- stances , that there is any difference between volition and pre- ference ; or that a man's choosing , liking best , or being best pleased ...
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... proper objects that the act of volition spoken of is next conversant about . For the act of Will spoken of , is concerning present drinking or forbearing to drink . If he wills to drink , then drinking is the proper object of the act of ...
... proper objects that the act of volition spoken of is next conversant about . For the act of Will spoken of , is concerning present drinking or forbearing to drink . If he wills to drink , then drinking is the proper object of the act of ...
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... proper sense of the word , which is , or will be , notwithstanding all supposable opposition . To say , that a thing is necessary , is the same thing as to say , that it is im- possible , it should not be . But the word impossible is ...
... proper sense of the word , which is , or will be , notwithstanding all supposable opposition . To say , that a thing is necessary , is the same thing as to say , that it is im- possible , it should not be . But the word impossible is ...
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... proper meaning . As for instance ; if any one should affirm after this manner , That it is necessary for a man , or what must be , that he should choose virtue rather than vice , during the time that he prefers virtue to vice ; and that ...
... proper meaning . As for instance ; if any one should affirm after this manner , That it is necessary for a man , or what must be , that he should choose virtue rather than vice , during the time that he prefers virtue to vice ; and that ...
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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.