The Works of President Edwards ..., Volume 5Isaac Sturtevant, Printer, 1803 - Congregational churches |
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... agent , has some sort and degree of tendency or advantage to move or excite the Will , previous to the effect , or to the act of the Will excited . This previous tendency of the motive is what I call the strength of the mo tive . That ...
... agent , has some sort and degree of tendency or advantage to move or excite the Will , previous to the effect , or to the act of the Will excited . This previous tendency of the motive is what I call the strength of the mo tive . That ...
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... agent , which has the nature and influence of a motive to volition or choice , is considered or viewed as good ; nor has it any tendency to invite or engage the election of the soul in any further degree than it appears such . For to ...
... agent , which has the nature and influence of a motive to volition or choice , is considered or viewed as good ; nor has it any tendency to invite or engage the election of the soul in any further degree than it appears such . For to ...
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... Agent that has a will : The power of choosing itself , has not a power of choosing . That which has the power of volition or choice is the man or the soul , and not the power of volition itself . he that has the Liberty of doing ...
... Agent that has a will : The power of choosing itself , has not a power of choosing . That which has the power of volition or choice is the man or the soul , and not the power of volition itself . he that has the Liberty of doing ...
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... Agent . What it does is not faulty or sinful , or deserving of any punishment . The brute creatures are not moral Agents . The actions of some of them are very profitable and pleasant ; others are very hurtful ; yet , seeing they have ...
... Agent . What it does is not faulty or sinful , or deserving of any punishment . The brute creatures are not moral Agents . The actions of some of them are very profitable and pleasant ; others are very hurtful ; yet , seeing they have ...
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... Agent , the source of all moral ability and Agency , the fountain and rule of all virtue and moral good ; though by reason of his being supreme over all , it is not possible He should be under the influence of law or command , promises ...
... Agent , the source of all moral ability and Agency , the fountain and rule of all virtue and moral good ; though by reason of his being supreme over all , it is not possible He should be under the influence of law or command , promises ...
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Page 386 - For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Page 152 - Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels? But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
Page 356 - Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with : but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.
Page 343 - All things are delivered unto me of my Father, and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
Page 356 - Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ : according as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love...
Page 406 - And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob : for this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
Page 416 - That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him : 18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened ; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints...
Page 343 - But he answered one of them and said, 'Friend, I do thee no wrong. Didst not thou agree with me for a penny?
Page 416 - But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood...
Page 456 - But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning, who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.