An 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 BlameJames Duncan, 1831 - 454 páginas "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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... impossible ? This doctrine , we say , even though it could not be disproved , would be overwhelm- ed , silenced , and scouted , by the concurrent suffrages of all other sciences . It is contradicted by the number or quantity of proofs ...
... impossible ? This doctrine , we say , even though it could not be disproved , would be overwhelm- ed , silenced , and scouted , by the concurrent suffrages of all other sciences . It is contradicted by the number or quantity of proofs ...
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... impossible to decide whether it should be read 901 or 001 . NOTE A A. p . lxxxii . The limits and intention of this Essay forbid that any exemplification should be attempted of that method of com- bined observation and analysis , of ...
... impossible to decide whether it should be read 901 or 001 . NOTE A A. p . lxxxii . The limits and intention of this Essay forbid that any exemplification should be attempted of that method of com- bined observation and analysis , of ...
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... impossible , & c . are abund- antly used in controversies about free - will and moral agency ; and therefore the sense in which they are used should be clearly understood . Here I might say , that a thing is then said to be necessary ...
... impossible , & c . are abund- antly used in controversies about free - will and moral agency ; and therefore the sense in which they are used should be clearly understood . Here I might say , that a thing is then said to be necessary ...
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... impossible , and other such like terms . 2. These terms , necessary , impossible , irre- sistible , & c . , do especially belong to controversy about liberty and moral agency , as used in the latter of the two senses now mentioned ; viz ...
... impossible , and other such like terms . 2. These terms , necessary , impossible , irre- sistible , & c . , do especially belong to controversy about liberty and moral agency , as used in the latter of the two senses now mentioned ; viz ...
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... impossible to us , when we would do it , or would have it brought to pass , and endeavour it ; or at least may be supposed to desire and seek it ; but all our desires and endeavours are , or would be , vain . And that is said to be ...
... impossible to us , when we would do it , or would have it brought to pass , and endeavour it ; or at least may be supposed to desire and seek it ; but all our desires and endeavours are , or would be , vain . And that is said to be ...
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Página 229 - For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
Página 177 - But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
Página 212 - He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
Página 164 - I have sworn by Myself, the word is gone out of My mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, that unto Me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
Página 166 - His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.
Página 228 - And they sung a new song, saying, "Thou art worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof; for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation; and hast made us unto our God kings and priests; and we shall reign on the earth.
Página 228 - And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the beasts and the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing.
Página 220 - Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
Página 162 - For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.