A CAREFUL AND STRICT ENQUIRY INTO THE MODERN PREVAILING NOTIONS OF THAT FREEDOM of WILL, WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO BE ESSENTIAL то MORAL AGENCY, VIRTUE AND VICE, By JONATHAN EDWARDS, A. M. Rom. ix. 16. It is not of him that willeth--- LONDON: Printed for C. DILLY in the Poultry, and the other THE PREFACE. MA pro ANY find much fault with the calling profeffing Chriftians, that differ one from another in fome matters of opinion, by diftinct names; especially calling them by the names of particular men, who have diftinguished themselves as maintainers and moters of thofe opinions; as the calling fome profeffing Chriftians Arminians, from Arminius; others Arians, from Arius; others Socinians, from Socinus, and the like. They think it unjuft in itself; as it seems to fuppofe and fuggeft, that the perfons marked out by these names, received thofe doctrines which they entertain, out of regard to, and reliance on those men after whom they are named; as though they made them their rule; in the fame manner, as the followers of CHRIST are called Chriftians; after his name, whom they regard and depend upon, as their great Head and Rule. Whereas, this is an unjuft and groundless imputation on those that go under the fore-mentioned denominations. Thus (fay they) there is not the least ground |