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| Other uniform titles: | Taylor, Isaac, 1787-1865,
Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758. Remarks on the Essays on the principles of morality, and natural religion.
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| Notes: | On spine: Edwards on the will.
Includes index.
Originally published in 1754 as A Careful and strict inquiry into the modern prevailing notions of that freedom of will...
Also issued online.
committed to retain from JKM Seminaries Library 2023 JKM University of Chicago Library
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| Summary: | "This book considers the doctrines of free will and moral agency in light of Christianity. The subject is of such importance as to demand attention, and the most thorough consideration. Of all kinds of knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important. As religion is the great business, for which we are created, and on which our happiness depends; and as religion consists in an intercourse between ourselves and our Maker, and so has its foundation in God's nature and ours, and in the relation that God and we stand in to each other; therefore a true knowledge of both must be needful, in order to true religion. But the knowledge of ourselves consists chiefly in right apprehensions concerning those two chief faculties of our nature, the understanding and will"--Preface.
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| Other form: | Online version: Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758. Freedom of the will. Inquiry into the modern prevailing notions respecting that freedom of will which is supposed to be essential to moral agency, virtue and vice, reward and punishment, praise and blame. A new edition. London : James Duncan, 1831
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