The Works of President Edwards ...Isaac Sturtevant, Printer, 1802 - Congregational churches |
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... deter- mines the Will . But it may be necessary that I should a lit- tle explain my meaning in this . By motive , I mean the whole of that which moves , excites or invites the mind to volition , whether that be one thing singly , or ...
... deter- mines the Will . But it may be necessary that I should a lit- tle explain my meaning in this . By motive , I mean the whole of that which moves , excites or invites the mind to volition , whether that be one thing singly , or ...
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... deter- mined by the greatest apparent good , or by what seems most agreeable ; because an appearing most agreeable or pleasing to the mind , and the mind's preferring and choosing , seem hardly to be properly and perfectly distinct . If ...
... deter- mined by the greatest apparent good , or by what seems most agreeable ; because an appearing most agreeable or pleasing to the mind , and the mind's preferring and choosing , seem hardly to be properly and perfectly distinct . If ...
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... deter mined by the strongest motive , then it must always have an Inability , in this latter sense , to act otherwise than it does ; it not being possible , in any case , that the will should , at pres- ent , go against the motive which ...
... deter mined by the strongest motive , then it must always have an Inability , in this latter sense , to act otherwise than it does ; it not being possible , in any case , that the will should , at pres- ent , go against the motive which ...
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... the choice ; and acts of choice are subject to the decision , and follow the con- duct of other acts of choice . And therefore if the Will deter . mines all its own free acts , then every free 44 FREEDOM OF THE WILL .
... the choice ; and acts of choice are subject to the decision , and follow the con- duct of other acts of choice . And therefore if the Will deter . mines all its own free acts , then every free 44 FREEDOM OF THE WILL .
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... deter- mines all the rest , be not a free act , the Will is not free in causing or determining any one of those acts ... deter- mining its own acts , they do not mean that the Will deter- mines its acts by any preceding act , or that one ...
... deter- mines all the rest , be not a free act , the Will is not free in causing or determining any one of those acts ... deter- mining its own acts , they do not mean that the Will deter- mines its acts by any preceding act , or that one ...
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