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I shall briefly consider this so-much- controverted subject, by considering the fol- lowingthings : I. What free-will is, or what is the nature of the liberty of the human will. 1. The will of man, though it is free, ...
So that the liberty of the will is consistent with some kind of necessity, yea, even with some kind of servitude. A servant may serve his master freely and voluntarily, as the Hebrew servant who was unwilling to part from his master ...
To choose the one is to choose liberty and property, blessing and life, and everything that is valuable, ... nor ought they to have a place or concern in the controversy about the power and liberty of the will in things spiritual.
These words are so far from being expressive of the power and liberty of the will of man to come to Christ, that they rather declare the perverseness and stubbornness cf it; that man has no desire, inclination, or will, to go Christ for ...
13, by the imprudent abuse of Christian liberty in those who had stronger faith, and greater knowledge, and by a participation in things offered to idols, in an idol's temple, ver. 7, 10 ; and not of his eternal damnation in hell, ...
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The Cause of God and Truth: In Four Parts with a Vindication of Part IV John Gill Limited preview - 2001 |