Beginning with a notebook entry on “Infused Habits,” then drilling into the Edwards corpus with Visual Edwards software:
73. INFUSED [HABITS]. To say that a man who has no true virtue and no true grace can acquire it by frequent exercises of [it], is as much a contradiction as to say a man acts grace when he has no grace, or that he has it [when] he has it not. For tell me [how] a man that has no true grace within him shall begin to exercise it: before he begins to exercise it, he must have some of it. How shall [he] act virtuously the first time? how came he by that virtue which he then acted? Certainly not [by] exercise of virtue, for it supposes that he never acted virtuously before, and therefore could not get it by acting of it before.
edwards.yale.edu
‘Tis said that a sinful [man] begins to use himself to act the matter of virtue, and after a while it became habitual to him. I answer, that it may become habitual to him [if] he did; but it can’t become habitual to him to act as he never did before, by the means of his using of himself to it. When [was the] time when the man first began to act from a truly virtuous principle? I suppose that it was [the time] that the man first acted true virtue. But [what made] him so to act true virtue, or from a truly virtuous principle, then? Was it because he had used himself to it, when it is…
[Perhaps you will say, the] man got the habit of acting from a virtuous principle from doing…
Term Set A: habit, habitual / Term Set B: virtue, virtuous, principle
Transcription
Include notes: ‘False’
Core visualization: ‘False’
Visualization is 64 x 36 inches
Term Set A: habit, habitual, habitual, habitual, habitual
Term Set B: virtue, virtuous, principle, principle, principle
Distance between terms: up to ’10’
Labels: ‘yes’
Terms A/B:
WJE 1:160 – Freedom of the Will
WJE 1:323 – Freedom of the Will
WJE 1:326 – Freedom of the Will
WJE 1:360 – Freedom of the Will
WJE 2:119 – Religious Affections
WJE 2:243 – Religious Affections
WJE 2:398 – Religious Affections
WJE 13:242 – The “Miscellanies,” a-500
WJE 18:278 – The “Miscellanies,” 501-832
WJE 18:530 – The “Miscellanies,” 501-832
WJE 19:141 – Sermons and Discourses, 1734-1738
WJE 19:204 – Sermons and Discourses, 1734-1738
WJE 21:219 – Writings on the Trinity, Grace, and Faith
WJE 21:269 – Writings on the Trinity, Grace, and Faith
WJE 21:297 – Writings on the Trinity, Grace, and Faith
WJE 21:311 – Writings on the Trinity, Grace, and Faith
WJE 21:371 – Writings on the Trinity, Grace, and Faith
WJE 23:466 – The “Miscellanies,” 1153-1360
WJE 23:579 – The “Miscellanies,” 1153-1360
Terms B/A:
WJE 1:160 – Freedom of the Will
WJE 1:320 – Freedom of the Will
WJE 1:323 – Freedom of the Will
WJE 1:324 – Freedom of the Will
WJE 1:325 – Freedom of the Will
WJE 1:326 – Freedom of the Will
WJE 1:328 – Freedom of the Will
WJE 1:337 – Freedom of the Will
WJE 1:413 – Freedom of the Will
WJE 2:435 – Religious Affections
WJE 3:201 – Original Sin
WJE 6:374 – Scientific and Philosophical Writings
WJE 6:393 – Scientific and Philosophical Writings
WJE 8:614 – Ethical Writings
WJE 8:615 – Ethical Writings
WJE 8:618 – Ethical Writings
WJE 8:640 – Ethical Writings
WJE 12:262 – Ecclesiastical Writings
WJE 13:242 – The “Miscellanies,” a-500
WJE 13:344 – The “Miscellanies,” a-500
WJE 16:203 – Letters and Personal Writings
WJE 18:528 – The “Miscellanies,” 501-832
WJE 18:530 – The “Miscellanies,” 501-832
WJE 20:153 – The “Miscellanies,” 833-1152
WJE 21:196 – Writings on the Trinity, Grace, and Faith
WJE 21:197 – Writings on the Trinity, Grace, and Faith
WJE 21:231 – Writings on the Trinity, Grace, and Faith
WJE 21:297 – Writings on the Trinity, Grace, and Faith
WJE 23:53 – The “Miscellanies,” 1153-1360
WJE 23:595 – The “Miscellanies,” 1153-1360
WJE 25:664 – Sermons and Discourses, 1743-1758
Visualization color palette is ‘gist_heat’
Highlighted term: ‘habit’
Highlighted term: ‘habitual’
Highlighted term: ‘virtue’
Highlighted term: ‘virtuous’
Highlighted term: ‘principle’
Background is ‘black’ and label color is ‘white’
Visualization layout is ‘kamada kawai’
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