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Freedom of the Will by Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758)
IT may possibly be thought, that there is no great need of going about to define or describe the Will; this word being generally as well understood as any other words we can use to explain it: and so perhaps it would be, had not philosophers, metaphysicians, and polemic divines, brought the matter into obscurity by the things they have said of it.
Freedom of the Will by Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758)
rily holy, yet truly virtuous, praise-worthy, rewardable, &c. I HAVE already considered how Dr. Whitby insists upon it, that a freedom, not only from coaction, but necessity,…
Works of Jonathan Edwards, Volume One by Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758)
CHAP. IV. WHEREIN SEVERAL OTHER OBJECTIONS ARE CONSIDERED. Dr. T. objects against Adam’s posterity being supposed to come into the world under a forfeiture of God’s blessing, and subject to his curse through his sin,—That at the restoration of the world after the flood, God pronounced equivalent or greater blessings on Noah and his sons, than he did on Adam at his creation, when he said,…
Works of Jonathan Edwards, Volume One by Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758)
SECT. IX. Concerning that objection against the doctrine which has been maintained, that it makes God the Author of Sin. It is urged by Arminians,…
Works of Jonathan Edwards, Volume One by Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758)
SECT. III. Those affections that are truly holy, are primarily founded on the moral excellency of divine things. Or, a love to divine things for the beauty and sweetness of their moral excellency,…
Works of Jonathan Edwards, Volume One by Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758)
PART II. THE PURCHASE OF REDEMPTION Having thus considered Christ’s coming into the world, and his taking on him our nature, to put himself in a capacity for the purchase of redemption,…
Works of Jonathan Edwards, Volume One by Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758)
SECT. II. Another cause of errors in conduct attending a religious revival, is the adoption of wrong principles. One erroneous principle,…
Works of Jonathan Edwards, Volume One by Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758)
PREFACE. There is no question of greater importance to mankind, and that it more concerns every individual person to be well resolved in, than this:…
Works of Jonathan Edwards, Volume Two by Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758)
SERMON IX. matthew v. 8. Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. god formerly delivered his law from mount Sinai, by an audible voice, with the sound of a trumpet, with the appearance of devouring fire, with thunders, and lightnings, and earthquakes.
Religious Affections by Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758)
and delusive, in that they tend to, and are attended with the lamblike, dovelike spirit and temper of Jesus Christ; or in other words, they naturally beget and promote such a spirit of love, meekness, quietness, forgiveness and mercy, as appears in Christ.
