. A Careful and strict enquiry into the modern prevailing notions of that freedom of will : which is supposed to be essential to moral agency, virtue and vice, reward and punishment, praise and blame. effential Qualities of amoral Agent are in God, in the greateil poiTiblePerfection •, fuch as Underflanding, to perceivethe Difference between moral Good and Evil ; aCapacity cf difcerning that moral Worthinels and Pqjnerit^ Sect. V. ^W of moral Agency. 43 Dement, by which fome Things are Praife-wor-thy, others deferving of Blame and Punifhment;and alfo a Capacity of Choice, and Choice guidedby U
. A Careful and strict enquiry into the modern prevailing notions of that freedom of will : which is supposed to be essential to moral agency, virtue and vice, reward and punishment, praise and blame. effential Qualities of amoral Agent are in God, in the greateil poiTiblePerfection •, fuch as Underflanding, to perceivethe Difference between moral Good and Evil ; aCapacity cf difcerning that moral Worthinels and Pqjnerit^ Sect. V. ^W of moral Agency. 43 Dement, by which fome Things are Praife-wor-thy, others deferving of Blame and Punifhment;and alfo a Capacity of Choice, and Choice guidedby Underftanding, and a Power of acting accord-ing to his Choice or Pleafure, and being capableof doing thofe Things which are in the higheftSenfe Praife-worthy. And herein does very muchconfift that Image of God wherein he made Man,(which we read of Gen. I. 26, 27. and Chap. IX. 6.)by which God diftinguifhed Man from the Beafts,<viz. in thofe Faculties and Principles of Nature,whereby He is capable of moral Agency. Here-in very much confifts the statural Image of God ;as s,fpiritual and moral Image, wherein Man wasmade at firft, confifted in that moral Excellency,that he was endowed PART ( 44 )
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