A Careful and Strict Inquiry Into the Modern Prevailing Notions of that Freedom of Will: Which is Supposed to be Essential to Moral Agency, Virtue and Vice, Reward and Punishment, Praise and Blame |
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... Self - de- termination . And if that firft Act of the Will , which determines and fixes the fubfequent Acts , be not ... Determination of the first in the Series , which is not dependent on the Will , and is that which the Will has no Hand in ...
... Self - de- termination . And if that firft Act of the Will , which determines and fixes the fubfequent Acts , be not ... Determination of the first in the Series , which is not dependent on the Will , and is that which the Will has no Hand in ...
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... determined to Motion , and in the Direction of its Motion , by the Motion of the ... Self - moving or Self - determining Power in the Chain , any more than if ... Determination , is repugnant to itself , and fhuts itself wholly out of the ...
... determined to Motion , and in the Direction of its Motion , by the Motion of the ... Self - moving or Self - determining Power in the Chain , any more than if ... Determination , is repugnant to itself , and fhuts itself wholly out of the ...
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... Self - determining Power , is overthrown . If there be an Act of the Will in determining all its own free Acts , then one free Act of the Will is determined by another ; and fo we have the Abfurdity of every free Act , even the very ...
... Self - determining Power , is overthrown . If there be an Act of the Will in determining all its own free Acts , then one free Act of the Will is determined by another ; and fo we have the Abfurdity of every free Act , even the very ...
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... determining it ; and confequently is an Act not determined by the Will , and fo ... Self - moving Power in the Chain , as if the Motion of one Link followed ... Determination of the Act ; That for the Soul to exert a particular Volition ...
... determining it ; and confequently is an Act not determined by the Will , and fo ... Self - moving Power in the Chain , as if the Motion of one Link followed ... Determination of the Act ; That for the Soul to exert a particular Volition ...
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... determining its own Acts , and for Liberty of Will confifting in Self - determining Power ; they do nothing but confound Themfelves and others with Words without a Meaning . In the Queftion , What determines the Will ? and in their ...
... determining its own Acts , and for Liberty of Will confifting in Self - determining Power ; they do nothing but confound Themfelves and others with Words without a Meaning . In the Queftion , What determines the Will ? and in their ...
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abfolute abfurd Act of Choice Action againſt agreeable alfo alſo Anſwer antecedent arife Arminian becauſe Blame Cafe Calvinists Caufe Cauſe Chrift chufe cife Circumftances Command common Senfe Confequence Confideration confifts Connection Contingence contrary Defign Defire determined difpofing Difpofition diftinct Doctrine Effect Endeavours Event Evil excufe Exercife Exertion Exiftence Exiſtence faid fame Thing feems fhall fhould fignify fincere firft firſt fome fomething free Act Freedom ftands ftill fuch Thing fufficient fuppofe fure God's greateſt himſelf impoffible Inclination inconfiftent Indifference infinite Influence Inftance itſelf lefs Liberty manifeft metaphyfical Mind moft moral Agents moral Neceffity moſt Motive muft muſt Nature neceffarily neceffary Notion obferved Object Occafion Oppofition otherwife pafs paſs Perfons perly pleaſes Pleaſure poffible pofitive Power Praiſe prefent Promiſes Puniſhment Purpoſe Reaſon Refpect Sect Self-determination Senſe Soul ſpeak Suppofition ſuppoſe thefe Things themſelves theſe thofe thoſe tion Underſtanding uſed Virtue virtuous Volition whatſoever wherein Whitby Wiſdom
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Page 210 - 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 196 - I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles...
Page 203 - Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. Then said I, "Lo, I come:" in the volume of the book it is written of me, "I delight to do thy will, O my God." Yea, thy law is within my heart: I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, thou knowest.
Page 211 - He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied ; by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many : for he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong ; because he hath poured out his soul unto death : and he was numbered with the transgressors ; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Page 199 - Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath ; that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the Hope set before us...
Page 207 - Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations. And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me : that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Page 214 - And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient...
Page 210 - And they sung a new song, saying, "Thou art worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof; for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation...
Page 199 - That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore ; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies ; And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed ; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
Page 358 - And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them ; that ye may know how that I am the LORD.