 | Jonathan Edwards - Free will and determinism - 1768 - 464 pages
...Nothing is wanting but a Will SECTION V. Concerning the Notion of Liberty, and of moral Agency. TH E plain and obvious Meaning of the Words Freedom and...Speech, is Power, Opportunity, or Advantage, that eny one has, to do as be pleafes. Or in other Words, his being free from Hindrance or Impediment in... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1803 - 572 pages
...: Nothing is wanting but a will. SECTION V. Concerning the Notion of Liberty, and of Moral Agency. THE plain and obvious meaning of the words Freedom...words, his being free from hinderance or impediment in thp tray of doing, or conducting in any respect, as he wills.* And the contrary to Liberty, whatever... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1808 - 520 pages
...: Nothing is wanting but a will. SECTION V. Concerning the Notion of Liberty, and of Moral Agency. THE plain and obvious meaning of the words Freedom and Liberty, in common speech, is /tower, opportunity or urf•vantaffe, that any one has, to do as he pleases. Or in other words, his... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Free will and determinism - 1828 - 342 pages
...I.onl Kames. tP. 160, 161, 164, 165, and njany other places. Liberty, as I have explained it, is the power, opportunity, or advantage that any one has to do as he pleases, or conducting himself IN ANY RESPECT according to his pleasure; without considering how his pleasure comes... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Religion - 1829 - 598 pages
...•Lord Kames. t P. 160, 161, 164, 165, and many other place?. Liberty, as I have explained it, is the power, opportunity, or advantage that any one has to do as he pleases, or conducting himself IN ANY RESPECT according to his pleasure; without considering how his pleasure comes... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1830 - 598 pages
...disposition : nothing is wanting but a will. SECT. V. Concerning the Notion of Liberty, and of Moral Agency. The plain and obvious meaning of the words Freedom and Liberty, in common speech, is The power, opportunity, or advantage that any one has, to do as he pleases. Or in other words, his... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1830 - 604 pages
...Lord Kames. |P. 160. 161, 164, 165, and many other places. Liberty, as I have explained it, is the power, opportunity, or advantage that any one has to do as he pleases, or conducting himself IN ANY RESPECT according to his pleasure; without considering how his pleasure comes... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Election (Theology) - 1831 - 604 pages
...this is certainly a great mistake. Liberty, as I have explained it, in p. 40, and other places, is the power, opportunity, or advantage, that any one has to do as he pleases, or conducting, IN ANY RESPECT, according to his pleasure ; without considering how his pleasure comes... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - Theology - 1839 - 622 pages
...such cut as this on almost every page. Quoting President Edwards, where he says that " liberty is the power, opportunity, or advantage that any one has to do as he pleases," he remarks, " No liberty is contended for in this system, in relation to man, but physical liberty,"... | |
 | Henry Philip Tappan - Free will and determinism - 1839 - 312 pages
...will follow, — that when he wills to walk, he walks, &c. " Liberty, as I have explained it, is the power, opportunity, or advantage, that any one has to do as he pleases, or conducting himself in any respect according to his pleasure, without considering how his pleasure comes... | |
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The plain and obvious meaning of the words Freedom and Liberty, in common speech, is power, opportunity, or advantage, that any one has to do as he pleases... 
