West Answers to Jonathan Edwards's Determinism
Essays on Liberty and Necessity; in which the True Nature of Liberty is Stated and Defended; and the Principal Arguments used by Mr. Edwards, and others, for Necessity, are Considered. In Two Parts ... Part Second.
New Bedford, (Mass.): John Spooner, 1795.
Price: $400.00
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First edition. pp. [1]-96; [binder has mistakenly bound in duplicate signatures B and P (total 4 leaves). 1 vols. 12mo. West Answers to Jonathan Edwards's Determinism. Sewn in plain blue wrappers, uncut. Evans 29874.
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The first part of West's defense of free will was printed first in 1793 (Evans 26469 ). As West explains in his "Introduction to the Second Part", he was advised by his publisher to wait for a response from Edwards before committing himself to publishing this second part. It consists of four new essays on the subject of free will vs. the Calvinist precepts of Jonathan Edwards. Spooner reprinted the first part on this occasion also (Evans 29873), but the two are separate publications.
