I add that, when this latter part of the apostle's sentence is omitted, the reader is left in doubt concerning the kind of volition and nolition which is here the subject of investigation. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2] Reference
This volition and nolition may likewise be distinguished in another manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2] Reference
The former of these, which is indeed complete, may be called simply a volition and a nolition. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2] Reference
And with respect to the former, it will be volition; in respect to the latter, it will be nolition, concerning the same object, and the contrary. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2] Reference
Those, however, which follow the last judgment, are simply and absolutely called efficacious volition and nolition, to which the effect succeeds. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2] Reference
Hence, one volition is from the judgment of general estimation; the other is from the judgment of particular approbation, and thus becomes a nolition. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2] Reference
But the volition and nolition which follow not the last judgment, cannot so well be simply and absolutely called "volition" and "nolition," as velicity and nolicity. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2] Reference
There is one volition and nolition which follow the last judgment formed concerning the object; and another volition and nolition which follow not the last but the antecedent judgment. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2] Reference
Because every volition and every nolition follows the judgment of the man respecting the thing presented as an object, each of them, therefore, is also different according to the diversity of the judgment. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2] Reference
Wherefore, since it is impossible that there should be only a single genus of volition and nolition, or one mode of willing and not willing, by which a man wills the good and does not will the same good, and by which he does not will the evil and wills the same evil; this phrase. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2] Reference
For he had determined to produce the proper and reciprocal cause, why the man about whom he is treating "does not find to perform that which is good;" and therefore all other causes were to be removed, among which were the nolition of good and the volition of evil, also ignorance of that which is good and that which is evil, &c. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2] Reference
The apostle is here treating about a volition and a nolition that are incomplete and imperfect, and about the actual perpetration of evil and the omission of good, and not solely about the act or motion of lusting or desiring; (for this is declared by the matter itself, for the man wills and does not, therefore the volition is imperfect.). From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2] Reference
Solomon appeared vexed, as he replied — “I seriously lament that my nescience in the common terms of conversation should render it necessary to apply to a nomenclature; but my fellow-students and myself have always had a nolition to enter into nugacity, and on every subject aspire to express ourselves in ornate language.”. From Wordnik.com. [Lovers and Friends; or, Modern Attachments] Reference
"To will and not to will this thing," may be understood concerning either a complete or an incomplete volition and nolition, (to use the words of. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2] Reference
In defending this freedom of the will, Strigel appealed also to the statement of Luther: "The will cannot be coerced; ... if the will could be coerced, it would not be volition, but rather nolition. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church] Reference
He is treating, not about the volition and nolition of particular approbation, but about those of general estimation -- not about the volition and nolition which are occupied concerning an object considered in particular, but concerning one generally considered -- not about the volition and nolition which follow the last judgment, but about those which follow the antecedent judgment -- not about simple, absolute and complete volition, but about that which is incomplete, and which rather deserves to be called velicity. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2] Reference
Thus, likewise, concerning nolition. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2] Reference
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