A Careful and Strict Inquiry Into the Modern Prevailing Notions of that Freedom of the Will, which is Supposed to be Essential to Moral Agency, Virtue and Vice, Reward and Punishment, Praise and BlameLeavitt & Allen, 1856 - 190 pages |
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... Calvinists , has an entirely different signification . These several things belong to their notion of Liberty . 1. That it consists in a self- determining power in the will , or a certain sovereignty the will has over itself , and its ...
... Calvinists , has an entirely different signification . These several things belong to their notion of Liberty . 1. That it consists in a self- determining power in the will , or a certain sovereignty the will has over itself , and its ...
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... Calvinists , who place man's liberty only in a power of doing what he will , as that wherein they plainly agree with Mr. Hobbes : And yet he himself mentions the very same notion of liberty , as the dictate of the sense and common ...
... Calvinists , who place man's liberty only in a power of doing what he will , as that wherein they plainly agree with Mr. Hobbes : And yet he himself mentions the very same notion of liberty , as the dictate of the sense and common ...
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... Calvinists have ; which he at the same time condemns , as agreeing with the opinion of Mr. Hobbes , namely , the soul's acting by its own choice , men's doing good or evil according to their own free choice , their being in that ...
... Calvinists have ; which he at the same time condemns , as agreeing with the opinion of Mr. Hobbes , namely , the soul's acting by its own choice , men's doing good or evil according to their own free choice , their being in that ...
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... Calvinists ) , with disdain of the contrary opinion as absurd and self - contradictory , will appear by the following words of his , in his Discourse on the Five Points . * " Now , it is certain , that what naturally makes the ...
... Calvinists ) , with disdain of the contrary opinion as absurd and self - contradictory , will appear by the following words of his , in his Discourse on the Five Points . * " Now , it is certain , that what naturally makes the ...
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... Calvinists ; to show , in opposition to them , that there is no need of any physical peration of the Spirit of God on the Will , to change and determine that to a good choice , but that God's operation and assistance is only moral ...
... Calvinists ; to show , in opposition to them , that there is no need of any physical peration of the Spirit of God on the Will , to change and determine that to a good choice , but that God's operation and assistance is only moral ...
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