A Careful and Strict Inquiry Into the Modern Prevailing Notions of that Freedom of Will: Which is Supposed to be Essential to Moral Agency, Virtue and Vice, Reward and Punishment, Praise and BlameJ. Johnson, 1768 - 432 pagine |
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Pagina 2
... Choice , and it chufes the Negative ; and the Mind's making its Choice in that Cafe is pro- perly the Act of the Will : The Will's determining between the two is a voluntary determining ; but that is the fame Thing as making a Choice ...
... Choice , and it chufes the Negative ; and the Mind's making its Choice in that Cafe is pro- perly the Act of the Will : The Will's determining between the two is a voluntary determining ; but that is the fame Thing as making a Choice ...
Pagina 6
... Choice ; that in every Volition there is a Preference , or a prevailing Inclination of the Soul , whereby the Soul ... Choice fhould be thus , and not otherwife : And the Will is faid to be deter- mined , when , in Confequence of fome ...
... Choice ; that in every Volition there is a Preference , or a prevailing Inclination of the Soul , whereby the Soul ... Choice fhould be thus , and not otherwife : And the Will is faid to be deter- mined , when , in Confequence of fome ...
Pagina 8
... Choice , is what I call the Strongest Motive . And in this Senfe , I fuppofe the Will is always determined by the strongest Mo- tive . Things that exift in the View of the Mind have their Strength , Tendency or Advantage to move or ...
... Choice , is what I call the Strongest Motive . And in this Senfe , I fuppofe the Will is always determined by the strongest Mo- tive . Things that exift in the View of the Mind have their Strength , Tendency or Advantage to move or ...
Pagina 10
... Choice now decides , are his own Acts , in drinking the Li- quor , or letting it alone and this will certainly be done according to what , in the present View of his Mind , taken in the whole of it , is most agreeable to him . If he ...
... Choice now decides , are his own Acts , in drinking the Li- quor , or letting it alone and this will certainly be done according to what , in the present View of his Mind , taken in the whole of it , is most agreeable to him . If he ...
Pagina 11
... Choice may determine more indirectly , are the pre- fent pleasure the Man expects by drinking , and the future Mifery which he judges will be the Con- fequence of it : He may judge that this future Mifery , when it comes , will be more ...
... Choice may determine more indirectly , are the pre- fent pleasure the Man expects by drinking , and the future Mifery which he judges will be the Con- fequence of it : He may judge that this future Mifery , when it comes , will be more ...
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Pagina 210 - 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.
Pagina 196 - I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles...
Pagina 203 - 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: I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, thou knowest.
Pagina 211 - He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied ; by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many : for he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong ; because he hath poured out his soul unto death : and he was numbered with the transgressors ; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Pagina 199 - Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath ; that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the Hope set before us...
Pagina 207 - Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations. And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me : that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Pagina 214 - And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient...
Pagina 210 - 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...
Pagina 199 - That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore ; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies ; And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed ; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
Pagina 358 - And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them ; that ye may know how that I am the LORD.