The Power of Contrary Choice. An article from the October number of the Princeton Review for 1840. Princeton: Printed by John Bogart, N.D. [12126]
Removed, no wrapper, 8 1/2 x 5 inches, 20 pages. Good. Pamphlet.
A new edition of Jonathan Edwards on the Will is the occasion for this review entitled "The Power of Contrary Choice," first published in the Princeton Review and here reprinted. It is a treatment of whether or not the human will has a real ability to choose differently than it does. The reviewer commends the views of Edwards against those who would subvert the power and authority of God to rule over his creation.
"Particularly ought we to master and confound all reasonings and doctrines, which go, or tend, to a denial of the possibility of 'that which is the true system of administration in the city of God;' that it is possible, at least, that the Maker of all things should have his creatures at his own disposal; that he may work in them, to will and to do of his good pleasure; that he doeth his pleasure in the armies of heaven and among the inhabitants of earth; that it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy." - p. 20.
