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21 " He had an uncommon thirst for knowledge, in the pursuit of which he spared no cost nor pains. "
― Jonathan Edwards , The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Volume 1
22 " No, rather let me die this moment, than be left to bring dishonour on God’s holy name.—I "
23 " There seems to be the utmost danger, that the younger generation will be carried away with Arminianism as with a flood. "
24 " Arminian notion of Liberty of the Will, consisting in the will’s Self-determination, is repugnant to itself, and shuts itself wholly out of the world. "
25 " reason to fear that Arminianism, Arianism, and even Socinianism, in destruction to the doctrines of free grace, are daily propagated in the New England colleges. "
26 " choice.—The question is, What influences, directs, or determines the mind or Will to come to such a conclusion or choice as it does? "
27 " while Mr. Edwards was in the town, and they had no other minister to preach to them, they carried on public worship among themselves, and without any preaching, rather than invite him. "
28 " the divine virtue, or the virtue of the divine mind, must consist primarily in love to himself, or in the mutual love and friendship which subsists eternally and necessarily between the several persons in the Godhead, or that infinitely strong propensity there is in these divine persons one to another. "
29 " That we manifest our approbation of the Westminster Assembly’s Catechism, as containing an excellent system of divinity; and we purpose to preach agreeably to the doctrines of the Bible exhibited therein. "
30 " Of all kinds of knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important. "
31 " the Will (without any metaphysical refining) is, That by which the mind chooses any thing. The faculty of the Will, is that power, or principle of mind, by which it is capable of choosing: an act of the Will is the same as an act of choosing or choice. "
32 " Present choice cannot at present choose to be otherwise: for that would be at present to choose something diverse from what is at present chosen. "
33 " A man never, in any instance, wills any thing contrary to his desires, or desires any thing contrary to his Will. "
34 " Does the mind will, in any given manner, without a motive, cause or ground, which renders the given choice, rather than a different choice, certain. "
35 " A moral Agent is a being that is capable of those actions that have a moral quality, and which can properly be denominated good or evil in a moral sense, virtuous or vicious, commendable or faulty. "
36 " most of the duties incumbent on us, if well considered, will be found to partake of the nature of justice. "
37 " For the very notion of hardness of heart implies moral inability. "
38 " By particular and occasional moral Inability, I mean an Inability of the will or heart to a particular act, through the strength or defect of present motives, or of inducements presented to the view of the understanding, on this occasion.—If "
39 " affair.—The mind being a designing Cause, only enables it to produce effects in consequence of its design; it will not enable it to be the designing Cause of all its own designs. "