The Works of President Edwards, Vol. 5 of 8

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Excerpt from The Works of President Edwards, Vol. 5 of 8: Containing I. Inquiry Into the Modern Prevailing Notions of Freedom and Will, II. Miscellaneous Observations Concerning the Divine Decrees in General and Election in Particular, III. Concerning Efficacious Grace Nevertheless, at first, I had thoughts of carefully avoiding the use of the Arminian, in this treatise But. I soon found I 'sho'uld be nut to great difficulty by it and that my dis course would be so encumbered with an often re/zeated circumloc Cation, instead of a 'name, which would esress the thing intend ed as well and better, that I altered my jzur/zose. ind therefore I must ask the excuse of such as are a/2t to be o¿'ended with things of this nature, that I have so freely used the term Arminv ian in the following discourse. I firofess it to be without any design, to stigmatiz'e jzersons of any sort with a name of refiroach, or at all to make them aft/1607' more odious. If, when Ihad toe: rasion to sfieak of those Divines who are commonly called by this name, I had, instead of styling them Arminians, called them these men, as Dr. Whitby does Calvinistic Divines it fzroba bly would not have been taken any better, or thought to shew a better temfier, or more good manners. I have done as I would be done by, in this matter. However the term Caivinistic is, in these days, among most, a term of greater re¿roach than the term Arminian yet I sho'uld not take it at all amiss. To be call ed a Calvinist, for distinction's sake Though I utterly disclaim a defiendence ~o'u Calvin, or believing the doctrines which. I hold, because he believed and taught them and cannot justly be charg ed with believing in every thing just as he taught. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.