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THE
WORKS
OF
PRESIDENT EDWARDS.
IN TEN VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
I.
CONTAINING,
INQUIRY INTO THE FREEDOM OF THE WILL.
II. THE GREAT CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF ORIGINAL SIN DEfended.
NEW-YORK:
PUBLISHED BY S. CONVERSE. 1829.
ANDOVER THEOL. SEMARY
Sept. 22, 1875
LIBRARY.
23799
E25.1 1829
V. 2
CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.
I. INQUIRY INTO THE FREEDOM OF THE WILL.
Preface
PART I. Explanation of Terms, &c.
SECT. I. The Nature of the Will
11. What determines the Will
III. The Nature of Necessity
iv. Of Natural and Moral Inability
v. Of Liberty and Moral Agency
PART II. Concerning the Arminian Notion of Liberty.
SECT. I. The Inconsistence of Arminian Liberty
11. Supposed Evasions considered
III. No Event without a Cause
Page
11
15
18
26
32
38
IV. Volition not without a Cause
VII. Of Liberty of Indifference
68
VIII. Of Liberty without Necessity
77
IX. Will connected with Understanding
80
x. Acts connected with Motives
86
XI. God foreknows our Volitions
98
114
127
XII. Foreknowledge infers Necessity
XIII. Arminian Liberty Inconsistent
PART III. Concerning Moral Agency, Virtue and Vice, &c.
SECT. 1. God's moral excellency necessary
11. 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.
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
133
136
148
154
166
173
179
186
195
204
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
210
217
223
225
233
244
258
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290
II.
xv. Appendix
THE GREAT CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF ORIGINAL SIN
Evidences 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
201
VIII. Great means used to oppose wickedness
IX. Several evasions considered
Arguments from universal mortality
361
378
393
PART II.
CHAP. I.
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.
CHAP. II. Observations on Texts, chiefly of the Old Testament, &c. 439
III. Observations on Texts, principally in the New Testament.
SECT. 1. Observations on John iii. 6.
CHAP. IV. Containing observations on Rom. v. 12, &c.
449
456
III. Observations on Rom. v. 6-10., Eph. ii. 3. &c. 464
SECT. 1. Remarks on Dr. Taylor's way of explaining this
A
CAREFUL AND STRICT
ENQUIRY
INTO THE
MODERN PREVAILING NOTIONS
THAT FREEDOM OF WILL,
WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO BE ESSENTIAL
TO
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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