Freedom of the Will

▶ DESCRIPTION

Regarded by many as Jonathan Edwards’ greatest work, The Freedom of the Will examines the nature and state of man’s will, explaining that man’s will is fallen and in need of God’s grace for salvation.


▶ CONTENTS

1. Wherein Are Explained and Stated Various Terms and Things Belonging to the Subject of the Ensuing Discourse

2. Wherein It Is Considered Whether There Is or Can Be Any Sort of Freedom of Will, As That Wherein Arminians Place the Essence of the Liberty of All Moral Agents; and Whether Any Whether Any Such Thing Ever Was or Can Be Conceived of

3. Wherein Is Inquired Whether Any Such Liberty of Will As Arminians Hold, Be Necessary to Moral Agency, Virtue, Praise, and Dispraise, &c.

4. Wherein the Chief Grounds of the Reasonings of Arminians, in Support and Defense of the Aforementioned Notions of Liberty, Moral Agency, &c. and Against the Opposite Doctrine, Are Considered

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▶ AUTHOR

Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) was a Congregational minister of New England (now USA), a friend of such men as George Whitefield and Ebenezer and Ralph Erskine. The writings he left to posterity show something of the enormous spiritual stature of this scholar and preacher of the Gospel.