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SUPPOSED TO BE ESSENTIAL TO MORAL AGENCY, VIRTUE AND VICE, REWARD AND PUNISHMENT, PRAISE AND BLAME
CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.
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I. A CAREFUL AND STRICT INQUIRY INTO THE PREVAILING NO TIONS OF THE FREEDOM OF THE WILL.
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PART I. Wherein are explained and stated various terms and things belong-
ing to the subject of the ensuing Discourse
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SECT. I. Concerning the Nature of the Will
11. Concerning the Determination of the Will
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III. Concerning the meaning of the terms, Necessity, Impossibility, Inability,
&c., and of Contingence
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IV. Of the distinction of natural and moral Necessity, and Inability
v. Concerning the notion of Liberty, and of moral Agency
PART II. Wherein it is considered, whether there is or can be any such sort of
Freedom of Will, as that wherein Arminians place the essence of the Lib-
erty of all Moral Agents; and whether any such thing ever was or can be
conceived of
SECT. 1. Showing the manifest inconsistence of the Arminian notion of Liberty
of Will, consisting in the Will's self-determining Power
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11. Several supposed ways of evading the foregoing reasoning, considered 22
III. Whether any Event whatsoever, and Volition in particular, can come to
pass without a Cause of its existence
IV. Whether Volition can arise without a Cause, through the activity of the
nature of the soul
. Showing, that if the things asserted in these Evasions should be supposed
to be true, they are altogether impertinent, and cannot help the cause of
Arminian Liberty; and how, this being the state of the case, Arminian
writers are obliged to talk inconsistently
VI. Concerning the Will determining in things which are perfectly indifferent
in the view of the mind
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VII. Concerning the notion of Liberty of Will, consisting in Indifference
VIII. Concerning the supposed Liberty of the Will, as opposite to all Necessity 45
IX. Of the Connection of the Acts of the Will with the Dictates of the Under-
standing
x. Volition necessarily connected with the influence of Motives: with partic
ular observations of the great inconsistence of Mr. Chubb's assertions and
reasonings about the Freedom of the Will
XXI. The evidence of God's certain Foreknowledge of the Volitions of moral
Agents
XII. God's certain Foreknowledge of the future volitions of moral agents, in-
consistent with such a Contingence of those volitions as is without all Ne-
cessity.
XIII. Whether we suppose the volitions of moral Agents to be connected with.
any thing antecedent, or not, yet they must be necessary in such a sense as
to overthrow Arminian Liberty
PART III. Wherein is inquired, whether any such Liberty of Will as Arminians
hold be necessary to Mora! Agency, Virtue and Vice, Praise and Dis-
praise, &c.
SECT. 1. God's moral Excellency necessary, yet virtuous and praiseworthy
1. The Acts of the Will of the human soul of Jesus Christ, necessarily holy,
yet truly virtuous, praiseworthy, rewardable, &c.