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Freedom of the Will
by
Jonathan Edwards 
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About
Freedom of the Will 
by Jonathan Edwards
Freedom of the Will
Title:
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/edwards/will.html
URL:
Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758)
Author(s):
Grand Rapids, MI: Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Publisher:
2000-07-09
Date Created:
All; Classic; Theology;
CCEL Subjects:
BJ1461
LC Call no:
Ethics
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Table of Contents
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p. 1Title Page..........................................p. 2Part I. Wherein Are Explained and Stated Various Terms and ThingsBelonging to the Subject of the Ensuing Discourse................p. 2Section I. Concerning the Nature of the Will....................p. 4Section II. Concerning the Determination of the Will...............p. 9Section III. Concerning the Meaning of the Terms, Necessity, Impossibility,Inability, &c and of Contingence...........................p. 14Section IV. Of the Distinction of Natural and Moral Necessity, andInability...........................................p. 18Section V. Concerning the Notion of Liberty, and of Moral Agency......p. 21Part II. Wherein It Is Considered Whether There Is or Can Be Any Sort ofFreedom of Will, as That Wherein Arminians Place the Essence of the Libertyof All Moral Agents; and Whether Any Such Thing Ever Was or Can BeConceived of.........................................p. 21Section I. Showing the Manifest Inconsistence of the Arminian Notion ofLiberty of Will, Consisting in the Will’s Self-Determing Power........p. 23Section II. Several Supposed Ways of Evading the Foregoing ReasoningConsidered.........................................p. 26Section III. Whether Any Event Whatsoever, and Volition in Particular, CanCome to Pass Without a Cause of Its Existence.................p. 30Section IV. Whether Volition Can Arise Without a Cause, Through theActivity of the Nature of the Soul...........................p. 33Section V. Showing, That If the Things Asserted in These Evasions ShouldBe Supposed to Be True, They Are Altogether Impertinent, and CannotHelp the Cause of Arminian Liberty; and How, This Being the State of theCase, Arminian Writers Are Obliged to Talk Inconsistently..........p. 35Section VI. Concerning the Will Determining in Things Which Are PerfectlyIndifferent in the View of the Mind..........................p. 40Section VII. Concerning the Notion of Liberty of Will, Consisting inIndifference.........................................p. 45Section VIII. Concerning the Supposed Liberty of the Will, as Opposite toAll Necessity........................................p. 47Section IX. Of the Connexion of the Acts of the Will with the Dictates of theUnderstanding.......................................
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