THE

WORKS

OF

PRESIDENT EDWARDS.

IN TEN VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

CONTAINING,

I.

INQUIRY INTO THE FREEDOM OF THE WILL.

II. THE GREAT CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF ORIGINAL SIN DEFENDed.

PART III. Concerning Moral Agency, Virtue and Vice, &c.

SECT. I. God's moral excellency necessary

n. Christ's Volitions necessarily holy, &c.

II. Moral Necessity and Inability consistent

IV. Commands consistent with Moral Inability

v. Sincerity of Desires and Endeavours

VI. Indifference inconsistent with Virtue

VII. Arminian Notions of Moral Agency, &c.

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PART IV. On the Chief Grounds of the Reasoning of Arminians.

SECT. I. Of the Essence of Virtue and Vice

11. Arminian Notion of Action, false

III. Calvinism not against Common Sense

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SECT. IV. Necessary Virtue agreeable to Common Sense

v. Endeavours consistent with Calvinism

VI. The charge of Stoicism, &c. answered

VII. Necessity of Divine Volition

VIII. Necessity of Divine Volition, continued

IX. Of the existence of Sin, &c.

x Concerning Sin's first entrance

XI. Of God's Moral character

XII. Supposed Tendency of Necessity

XIII. Concerning Abstruse Reasoning

XIV. The Conclusion

xv. Appendix

II. THE GREAT CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF ORIGINAL SIN

DEFENDED.

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Lvidences of Original Sin from Facts and Events.

CHAP. I. The Evidence of the Doctrine from Facts.

SECT. I. All men tend to Sin and Ruin

11. Universal Sin proves a sinful propensity

III. This tendency most corrupt and pernicious

IV. All men sin immediately, &c.

v. All have more Sin than Virtue

Allvmber

PART 1.

PART II.

CHAP. I.

CHAP. II.

vr. Men's proneness to extreme Stupidity, &c.

VII. Generality of mankind wicked

CHAP. II. Arguments from universal mortality

VIII. Great means used to oppose wickedness

IX. Several evasions considered

Proofs of the Doctrine from particular parts of Scripture.

Observations on the first three chapters of Genesis.

SECT. I. Concerning Adam's original Righteousness

II. Death threatened to our first parents

III. Adam a federal Head, &c.

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Observations on Texts, chiefly of the Old Testament, &c. 439

III. Observations on Texts, principally in the New Testament.

SECT. I. Observations on John iii. 6.

II. Observations on Rom. iii. 9-24.

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III. Observations on Rom. v. 6-10., Eph. ii. 3. &c. 464

CHAP. IV. Containing observations on Rom. v. 12, &c.

SECT. 1. Remarks on Dr. Taylor's way of explaining this

Text

11. The true scope of Rom. v. 12, &c.

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PART III. Evidence of the Doctrine from Redemption by Christ.

CHAP. I. Proofs from Redemption by Christ

II. Proof from Application of Redemption

PART IV. Containing Answers to Objections.

CHAP. I. The Objection from the nature of Sin

II. God not the Author of Sin

III. The imputation of Adam's sin stated

IV. Several other Objections answered

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CAREFUL AND STRICT

ENQUIRY

INTO THE

MODERN PREVAILING NOTIONS

VOL. II.

OF

THAT FREEDOM OF WILL,

WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO BE ESSENTIAL

ΤΟ

MORAL AGENCY,

VIRTUE AND VICE, REWARD AND PUNISHMENT,
PRAISE AND BLAME.

ROM. IX. 16.-IT IS NOT OF HIM THAT WILLETH.

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