Excerpt from An Essay on Moral Agency: Containing Remarks on a Late Anonymous Publication, Entitled, an Examination of the Late President Edwards's Inquiry on Freedom of Will Whatever be the true idea or definition of Liberty, asapphed to morals we may reit fatisfied that the juli and good God will never either reward or puuifh any of his creatures, for any of their actions which were not free to all intents and purpofes, with that kind of freedom, which, in his view, is effential to the nature of virtue and vice. We may, likewife, con tide in it, that nothing will be efteemed, by mankind in general, either morally beautiful, or deformed meriting either commendation, 01 cenfure which hath not all that liberty and freedom in it and predi cable of it, which, in the common eftimation of men, is eifential to moral aftionfl - to our being accountable creatures, and proper fubjeets of, either punilhment, or reward.
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