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, SEMINARY I

Sept. 22, 1875

-LIBRARY.-

23.799

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. 1. The Inconsistence of Arminian Liberty

11. Supposed Evasions considered

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111. No Event without a Cause

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

SECT. 1. God's moral excellency necessary

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

SECT. 1. Of the Essence of Virtue and Vice

11. Arminian Notion of Action, false

111. Calvinism not against Common Sense

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SECT. IV. Necessary Virtue agreeable to Common Sense

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PART I. Evidences of Original Sin from Facts and Events.

CHAP. 1. The Evidence of the Doctrine from Facts.

SECT. 1. All men tend to Sin and Ruin

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CHAP. II. Arguments from universal mortality

PART II. Proofs of the Doctrine from particular parts of Scripture.

CHAP. I. 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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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.

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11. 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.

Text

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

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

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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