The video above shows the network of connections in a subset of Edwards’ Table to the “Miscellanies” dealing with some facet of the doctrine of grace. The notecard highlights “Miscellanies,” no. o.
In his discussion of the dispute around grace being resistible or irresistible, Edwards notes that the debate is nonsensical. He argues that a man can will anything he pleases, as it is just as certain as the fact that what is, is. He further states that a man cannot resist his own will, or desire to resist it, and that speaking of enlightening grace being on the understanding is just the same nonsense in other words.
But to say, after a man has willed a thing, that he could not have willed it if he had pleased, is to suppose two wills in a man: the one to will, which goes last, the other to please to will. And so with the same reason we may say, there is ten thousand: another to please to please to will, etc. Wherefore, to say that the man could have willed otherwise if he had pleased, is just all one as to say (only a hundred times as nonsensically spoken) that if he had willed otherwise, then we might be sure he could will otherwise. - “Miscellanies,” no. o
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Irresistible Grace