The Works of President Edwards ...Isaac Sturtevant, Printer, 1808 - Congregational churches |
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Page 49
... exercise any liberty in it ? These gentlemen suppose that the thing wherein the Will exercises liberty , is in its de- termining its own acts . But how can this be , if it be not ac- tive in determining ? Certainly the Will , or the ...
... exercise any liberty in it ? These gentlemen suppose that the thing wherein the Will exercises liberty , is in its de- termining its own acts . But how can this be , if it be not ac- tive in determining ? Certainly the Will , or the ...
Page 63
... exercise of activity is before the first exercise of activity , and is the Cause of it . 4. That the soul , though an active substance , cannot di- versify its own acts , but by first acting ; or be a determining Cause of different acts ...
... exercise of activity is before the first exercise of activity , and is the Cause of it . 4. That the soul , though an active substance , cannot di- versify its own acts , but by first acting ; or be a determining Cause of different acts ...
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... exercise of these dispositions be so ; for the exercise of bias is not the exercise of free selfdetermining Will , and so there is no exercise of liberty in it . Consequently , no man is virtu- ous or vicious , either in being well or ...
... exercise of these dispositions be so ; for the exercise of bias is not the exercise of free selfdetermining Will , and so there is no exercise of liberty in it . Consequently , no man is virtu- ous or vicious , either in being well or ...
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