Doctrine of the Will
by Asa Mahan
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Chapters (123)
- DEDICATORY PREFACE.
- CHAPTER I.
- IMPORTANCE OF THE SUBJECT.
- TRUE AND FALSE METHODS OF INQUIRY.
- COMMON FAULT.
- PROPER METHOD OF REASONING FROM REVELATION TO THE SYSTEM OF MENTAL PHILOSOPHY THEREIN PRE-SUPPOSED.
- ERRORS OF METHOD.
- CHAPTER II.
- CLASSIFICATION VERIFIED.
- CHAPTER III.
- SEC. I. TERMS DEFINED.
- CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ABOVE DEFINITIONS.
- MOTIVE DEFINED.
- SEC. II. LIBERTY, AS OPPOSED TO NECESSITY, THE CHARACTERISTIC OF THE WILL.
- OBJECTIONS TO THE DOCTRINE OF NECESSITY.
- DOCTRINE OF LIBERTY—DIRECT ARGUMENT.
- OBJECTION IN BAR OF AN APPEAL TO CONSCIOUSNESS.
- DOCTRINE OF LIBERTY ARGUED FROM THE EXISTENCE OF THE IDEA OF LIBERTY IN ALL MINDS.
- THE DOCTRINE OF LIBERTY, THE DOCTRINE OF THE BIBLE.
- SEC. 3. VIEWS OF NECESSITARIANS.
- NECESSITY AS HELD BY NECESSITARIANS.
- THE TERM, CERTAINTY, AS USED BY NECESSITARIANS.
- SINFUL INCLINATIONS.
- NECESSARIAN DOCTRINE OF LIBERTY.
- GROUND WHICH NECESSITARIANS ARE BOUND TO TAKE IN RESPECT TO THE DOCTRINE OF ABILITY.
- DOCTRINE OF NECESSITY, AS REGARDED BY NECESSITARIANS OF DIFFERENT SCHOOLS.
- CHAPTER IV.
- STRONGEST MOTIVE—REASONING IN A CIRCLE.
- CHAPTER V.
- SECTION I.
- PHRASE DEFINED.
- MEANING OF THIS PHRASE ACCORDING TO EDWARDS.
- THE WILL NOT ALWAYS AS THE DICTATES OF THE INTELLIGENCE.
- THE WILL NOT ALWAYS AS THE STRONGEST DESIRE.
- THE WILL NOT ALWAYS AS THE INTELLIGENCE AND SENSIBILITY COMBINED.
- SEC. II—MISCLLANEOUS TOPICS. NECESSITARIAN ARGUMENT.
- MOTIVES CAUSE ACTS OF WILL, IN WHAT SENSE.
- OBJECTION—PARTICULAR VOLITION, HOW ACCOUNTED FOR.
- FACTS LIKE THE ABOVE WRONGLY ACCOUNTED FOR.
- CHOOSING BETWEEN OBJECTS KNOWN TO BE EQUAL—HOW TREATED BY NECESSITARIANS.
- PALPABLE MISTAKE.
- CHAPTER VI.
- DANGER IN REASONING FROM THE MANNER IN WHICH WE FOREKNOW EVENTS TO THAT OF DIVINE PRESCIENCE.
- MISTAKE RESPECTING THE DIVINE PRESCIENCE.
- SINGULAR INCONSISTENCY OF NECESSITARIANS.
- NECESSITARIAN OBJECTION TO THE ABOVE ARGUMENT.
- CHAPTER VII.
- CONCLUSIONS FROM THE ABOVE. GODS PURPOSES CONSISTENT WITH THE LIBERTY OF CREATURES.
- SENSES IN WHICH GOD PURPOSED MORAL GOOD AND EVIL.
- DEATH OF THE INCORRIGIBLE PREORDAINED BUT NOT WILLED.
- GOD NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH OF THE INCORRIGIBLE.
- SIN A MYSTERY.
- CONCLUSION FROM THE ABOVE.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- SECTION I.
- SEC. II. DOGMAS IN THEOLOGY.
- MEN NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SIN OF THEIR PROGENITORS.
- CONSTITUTIONAL ILL-DESERT.
- PRESENT IMPOSSIBILITIES REQUIRED.
- CHAPTER IX.
- SINCERITY, AND NOT INTENSITY, THE TRUE STANDARD.
- CHAPTER X.
- OBJECTIONS.
- AN ACT OF WILL MAY RESULT FROM A VARIETY OF MOTIVES.
- LOVING WITH GREATER INTENSITY AT ONE TIME THAN ANOTHER.
- MOMENTARY REVOLUTIONS OF CHARACTER.
- CHAPTER XI.
- THOSE WHO ARE OR ARE NOT TRULY VIRTUOUS, HOW DISTINGUISHED.
- SELFISHNESS AND BENEVOLENCE.
- COMMON MISTAKE.
- DEFECTIVE FORMS OF VIRTUE.
- SEC. II. TEST OF CONFORMITY TO MORAL PRINCIPLE.
- COMMON MISTAKE.
- LOVE AS REQUIRED BY THE MORAL LAW.
- IDENTITY OF CHARACTER AMONG ALL BEINGS MORALLY VIRTUOUS.
- CHAPTER XII.
- SECTION I.
- ACTION OF THE WILL IN THE DIRECTION OF THE NATURAL PROPENSITIES.—EMOTION, DESIRE, AND WISH DEFINED.
- ANGER, PRIDE, AMBITION, &c.
- RELIGIOUS AFFECTIONS.
- SCRIPTURE TESTIMONY.
- REPENTANCE.
- LOVE.
- OF FAITH.
- SEC. II. GENERAL TOPICS SUGGESTED BY THE TRUTH ILLUSTRATED IN THE PRECEDING SECTION.
- CONVICTIONS, FEELINGS AND EXTERNAL ACTIONS—WHY REQUIRED, OR PROHIBITED.
- OUR RESPONSIBILITY IN RESPECT TO SUCH PHENOMENA.
- FEELINGS HOW CONTROLLED BY THE WILL.
- RELATION OF FAITH TO OTHER EXERCISES MORALLY RIGHT.
- CHAPTER XIII.
- MEN OFTEN VOLUNTARY IN THEIR OPINIONS.
- ERROR NOT FROM THE INTELLIGENCE, BUT THE WILL.
- PRIMARY FACULTIES CANNOT ERR.
- SO OF THE SECONDARY FACULTIES.
- ERROR, WHERE FOUND.—ASSUMPTION.
- PRE-JUDGMENTS.
- INTELLECT NOT DECEIVED IN PRE-JUDGMENTS.
- THE MIND HOW INFLUENCED BY PRE-JUDGMENTS.
- INFLUENCES WHICH INDUCE FALSE ASSUMPTIONS.
- CASES IN WHICH WE ARE APPARENTLY, THOUGH NOT REALLY, MISLED BY THE INTELLIGENCE.
- CHAPTER XIV.
- LIBERTY OF WILL AS OPPOSED TO MORAL SERVITUDE.
- MISTAKE OF GERMAN METAPHYSICIANS.
- MORAL SERVITUDE OF THE RACE.
- CHAPTER XV.
- COMMON IMPRESSION.
- SPIRIT OF DEPENDENCE DEFINED.
- DOCTRINE OF NECESSITY TENDS NOT TO INDUCE THE SPIRIT OF DEPENDENCE.
- GOD CONTROLS ALL INFLUENCES UNDER WHICH CREATURES DO ACT.
- DEPENDENCE ON ACCOUNT OF THE MORAL SERVITUDE OF THE WILL.
- CHAPTER XVI.
- ELEMENT OF WILL IN FORMATION OF CHARACTER. CHARACTER COMMONLY HOW ACCOUNTED FOR.
- THE VOLUNTARY ELEMENT TO BE TAKEN INTO THE ACCOUNT.
- AN EXAMPLE IN ILLUSTRATION.
- DIVERSITIES OF CHARACTER.
- CHAPTER XVII.
- OBJECTION. THE WILL HAS ITS LAWS.
- OBJECTION. GOD DETHRONED FROM HIS SUPREMACY, IF THE DOCTRINE OF LIBERTY IS TRUE.
- OBJECTION. GREAT AND GOOD MEN HAVE HELD THE DOCTRINE OF NECESSITY.
- LAST RESORT.
- WILLING, AND AIMING TO PERFORM IMPOSSIBILITIES.
- THOUGHT AT PARTING.
- FOOTNOTES
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