CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

1. INQUIRY INTO THE FREEDOM OF THE WILL.

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Preface

PART I. Explanation of Terms, &c.

SECT. I. The Nature of the Will

11. What determines the Will

II. The Nature of Necessity

iv. Of Natural and Moral Inability

v. Of Liberty and Moral Agency

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PART II. Concerning the Arminian Notion of Liberty.

SECT. I. The Inconsistence of Arminian Liberty

II. Supposed Evasions considered

III. No Event without a Cause

wy. Volition not without a Cause

v. These Evasions Impertinent,

vi. Of choosing in Things Indifferent

vir. Of Liberty of Indifference

viu. Of Liberty without Necessity

IX. Will connected with Understanding

x. Acts connected with Motives

XI. God foreknows our Volitions

XI. Foreknowledge infers Necessity

XI. Arminian Liberty Inconsistent

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PART III. Concerning Moral Agency, Virtue and Vice, &c.

SECT. I. God's moral excellency necessary

11. Christ's Volitions necessarily holy, sc.

m. Moral Necessity and Inability consistent

iv. Commands consistent with Moral Inability

v. Sincerity of Desires and Endeavours

vi. Indifference inconsistent with Virtue

vil. Arminian Notions of Moral Agency, &c.

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PART IV. On the Chief Grounds of the Reasoning of Arminians.

Sect. i. Of the Essence of Virtue and Vice

11. Arminian Notion of Action, false

11. Calvinism pot against Common Sense

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Sect. IV. Necessary Virtue agreea to Common Sense

v. Endeavours consistent win Calvinism

vi. The charge of Stoicism, &c. answered

vir. Necessity of Divine Volition

VII. Necessity of Divine Volition, continued

IX. Of the existence of Sin, &c.

x. Concerning Sin's first entrance

XI. Of God's Moral character

X11. Supposed Tendency of Necessity

XII. Concerning Abstruse Reasoning

XIV. The Conclusion

XV. Appendix :

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II. THE GREAT CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF ORIGINAL SIN

DEFENDED.

PART 1. Evidences of Original Sin from Facts and Events.

CHAP. I. The Evidence of the Doctrine from Facts.

SECT, 1. All men tend to Sin and Ruin

11. Universal Sin proves a sinful propensity

111. This tendency most corrupt and pernicious

IV. All men sin immediately, &c.

v. All have more Sin than Virtue

vi. Men's proneness to extreme Stupidity, &c.

vit. Generality of mankind wicked

viu. Great means used to oppose wickedness

ix. Several evasions considered

CHIAP. II. Arguments from universal mortality

PART II. Proofs of the Doctrine from particular parts of Scripture.

CHAP. I. Observations on the first three chapters of Genesis.

Sect. 1. Concerning Adam's original Righteousness

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1. Death threatened to our first parents

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II. Adam a federal Head, &c.

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CHAP. II. Observations on Texts, chiefly of the Old Testament, Sc. 439

III. Observations on Texts, principally in the New Testament.

SECT. 1. Observations on Johp ini. 6.

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11. Observations on Rom. iij. 9-24.

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111. Observations on Rom. v. 6—10., Eph. ii. 3. &c. 464

CHAP. IV. Containing observations on Rom. v. 12. &c.

Sect. 1. Remarks on Dr. Taylor's way of explaining this

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11. The true scope of Rom.

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PART III. Evidence of the Doctrine from Redemption by Christ.

CHAP. I. Proofs from Redemption by Christ

II. Proof from Application of Redemption

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PART IV. Containing Answers to Objections.

CHAP. I. The Objection from the nature of Sin

II. God not the Author of Sin

III. The imputation of Adam's sin stated

IV. Several other Objections answered

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