A Plea for the Study of Hebrew
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no volition has any moral value except as it is determined by a preceding moral principle or disposition—a moral spontaneity; and of course it is applicable to bad as well as good acts of choice. Let us then read the foregoing utterance in relation to bad acts of choice: This is the general notion, not that principles derive their badness from actions, but that actions derive their badness from the principles whence they proceed; and so that the act of choosing that which is bad is no further sinful than it proceeds from a bad principle, or sinful disposition of mind, which supposes that, therefore, it is not necessary that there should first be thought, reflection, and choice, before there can be any sinful disposition. If the choice be first, before the existence of a bad disposition of heart, what signifies that choice? Now, Edwards was maintaining against Taylor that Adam was created in righteousness, “with holy principles and dispositions.” Whence, then, the sinful principle or disposition which determined the first sinful act of choice? And if there was none, what signified that choice? We answer: there was no preceding sinful disposition which determined it; but, alas, that unnecessitated and avoidable act of choice, originated and determined by Adam’s will, had a significance which is marked upon the everlasting ages. JOHN L. GIRARDEAU.
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