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A REPRINT OF THE WORCESTER EDITION,

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VALUABLE ADDITIONS AND A COPIOUS GENERAL INDEX

TO WHICH, FOR THE FIRST TIME, HAS BEEN ADDED, AT GREAT EXPENSE,

A COMPLETE INDEX OF SCRIPTURE TEXTS.

NINTH EDITION IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

CONTAINING

I. INQUIRY INTO THE FREEDOM OF THE IV. DOCTRINE OF ORIGINAL SIN DEFENDED.
WILL.

II. DISSERTATION CONCERNING THE END
FOR WHICH GOD CREATED THE
WORLD.

III. DISSERTATION ON THE NATURE OF
TRUE VIRTUE.

V. MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS CON-
CERNING THE DIVINE DECREES IN
GENERAL AND ELECTION IN PAR-
TICULAR.

VI. REMARKS ON EFFICACIOUS GRACE.
VII. OBSERVATIONS CONCERNING FAITH,

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1856.

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1 A CAREFUL AND STRICT INQUIRY INTO THE PREVAILING NO

TIONS OF THE FREEDOM OF THE WILL.

PART I. Wherein are explained and stated various terms and things belong-

ing to the subject of the ensuing Discourse

SECT. I. Concerning the Nature of the Will

11. Concerning the Determination of the Will

1. Concerning the meaning of the terms, Necessity, Impossibility, Inability,

&c., and of Contingence

Iv. Of the distinction of natural and moral Necessity, and Inability

v. Concerning the notion of Liberty, and of moral Agency

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PART II. Wherein it is considered, whether there is or can be any suco sort of

Freedom of Will, as that wherein Arminians place the essence of the Lib-

erty of all Moral Agents; and whether any such thing ever was or can be

conceived of

ЯACT. I. Showing the manifest inconsistence of the Arminian notion of Liberty

of Will, consisting in the Will's self-determining Power

11. Several supposed ways of evading the foregoing reasoning, considered

III. Whether any Event whatsoever, and Volition in particular, can come tc

pass without a Cause of its existence

IV. Whether Volition can arise without a Cause, through the activity of the

nature of the soul

▼. Showing, that if the things asserted in these Evasions should be supposed

to be true, they are altogether impertinent, and cannot help the cause of

Arminian Liberty; and how, this being the state of the case, Arminian

writers are obliged to talk inconsistently

VI. Concerning the Will determining in things which are perfectly indifferent

in the view of the mind

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VII. Concerning the notion of Liberty of Will, consisting in Indifference

VIII. Concerning the supposed Liberty of the Will, as opposite to all Necessity 45

IX. Of the Connection of the Acts of the Will with the Dictates of the Under-

standing

x. Volition necessarily connected with the influence of Motives: with partic

ular observations of the great inconsistence of Mr. Chubb's assertions and

reasonings about the Freedom of the Will

XI. The evidence of God's certain Foreknowledge of the Volitions of moral

Agents

XII. God's certain Foreknowledge of the future volitions of moral agents, in-

consistent with such a Contingence of those volitions as is without all Ne-

cessity

XIII. Whether we suppose the volitions of moral Agents to be connected with

any thing antecedent, or not, yet they must be necessary in such a sense as

to overthrow Arminian Liberty

PART III. Wherein is inquired, whether any such Liberty of Will as Arminians

hold be necessary to Moral Agency, Virtue and Vice, Praise and Dis-

praise, &c.

SECT. 1. God's moral Excellency necessary, yet virtuous and praiseworthy

11. The Acts of the Will of the human soul of Jesus Christ, necessarily holy,

yet truly virtuous, praiseworthy, rewardable, &c.

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n. The case of such as are given up of God to sin, and of fallen man in gen-
eral, proves moral Necessity and Inability to be consistent with Blamewor-

thiness

IV. Command and Obligation to Obedience, consistent with moral inability.

to obey

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v. That Sincerity of Desires and Endeavors, which is supposed to excuse in

the non-performance of things in themselves good, particularly considered 195

VI. Liberty of Indifference, not only not necessary to Virtue, but utterly incon-

sistent with it; and all, either virtuous or vicious habits or inclinations, in-

consistent with Arminian notions of Liberty and moral Agency

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VII. Arminian notions of moral Agency inconsistent with all influence of Mo-

tive and Inducement, in either virtuous or vicious actions

PART IV. Wherein the chief groun is of the reasonings of Arminians, in sup-

port and defence of the forementioned notions of Liberty, Moral Agency,

&c., and against the opposite doctrine, are considered

SECT. I. The Essence of the virtue and 'vice of dispositions of the heart, and
acts of the Will, lies not in their Cause, but their Nature

II. The Falseness and Inconsistence of that metaphysical notion of Action,

and Agency, which seems to be generally entertained by the defenders of

the Arminian Doctrine concerning Liberty, moral Agency, &c.

III. The reasons why some think it contrary to common Sense, to suppose

those things which are necessary to be worthy of either Praise or Blame. 127

IV. It is agreeable to common sense, and the natural notions of mankind, to

suppose moral Necessity to be consistent with Praise and Blame, Reward

and Punishment

v. Objections, that this scheme of Necessity renders all Means and Endeavors

for avoiding Sin, or obtaining Virtue and Holiness, vain, and to no pur-

pose; and that it makes men no more than mere machines, in affairs of

morality and religion, answered

VI. Concerning that objection against the doctrine which has been maintain-

ed, that it agrees with the Stoical doctrine of Fate, and the opinions of Mr.

Hobbes

VII. Concerning the Necessity of the Divine Will

VIII. Some further objections against the moral Necessity of God's Volitions

considered

IX. Concerning that objection against the doctrine which has been maintained

that it makes God the author of Sin.

x. Concerning Sin's first Entrance into the World

XI. Of a supposed Inconsistence between these principles and God's moral

character

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XII. Of a supposed tendency of these principles to Atheism and Licentious-

ness

XIII. Concerning that objection against the reasoning, by which the Calvin-

istic doctrine is supposed, that it is metaphysical and abstruse

The Conclusion .

Remarks on the Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion,

in a Letter to a minister of the Church of Scotland.

II. DISSERTATION ON THE END FOR WHICH GOD CREATED THE

IV. Some objections considered.

CHAP. II. What may be learned from the Holy Scriptures

SECT. I. Scripture makes God his last end

Ir. Concerning a just method of arguing

III. Particular texts of Scripture

VI. What is meant by the glory of God, &c.

VII. God's last end is but one

III. A DISSERTATION ON THE NATURE OF TRUE VIRTUE.

CHAP. I. Concerning the essence of true virtue

II. How love respects different beings

III. Concerning the secondary beauty.

IV. Of self-love and its influence

V. Natural conscience, and the moral sense

VI. Of particular instincts of nature

VII. The reasons of many mistakes

VIII. Whether virtue be founded in sentiment.

IV. THE GREAT CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF ORIGINAL SIN

The author's Preface

DEFENDED.

PART. I. 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

11. Universal sin proves a sinful propensity

III. This tendency most corrupt and pernicious

IV. All men sin immediately, &c.

v. All have more sin than virtue

vi. Men's proneness to extreme stupidity, &c.

VII. Generality of mankind, wicked"

VIII. Great means used to oppose wickedness

IX. Several evasions considered

CHAP. II. Arguments from universal Mortality

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

CHAP. I. Observations on the three first Chapters of Genesis

SECT. 1. 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.

III. Observations on Texts, principally in the New Testament

SECT. I. Observations on John iii. 6.

II. Observations on Rom. iii. 9-24.

III. Observations on Rom. v. 6-10, Eph. ii. 3. &c.

CHAP. IV. Containing observations on Rom. v. 12. &c., .

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

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

11. Proof from Application of Redemption

PART. IV. Containing Answers to Objections

CHAP. 1. 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.

V. MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS.

Concerning the Divine Decrees in general, and Election in particular
Concerning Efficacious Grace

Observations Concerning Faith.

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