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

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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

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210

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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

OF

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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