"What we spoke of was strengthening our coaction.". From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
COROLLARY coaction only circumscribes the liberty of an agent, it does not destroy or take it away; and such circumscription is not made, except through the medium or intervention of the natural inclination; the natural inclination, therefore, is more opposed to liberty than coaction is. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2] Reference
Importunity is the only coaction that the will knows. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II.] Reference
Importunity, the only coaction that the will knows, ii. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.] Reference
Spontaneous acts and desires are opposed to coaction or external compulsion, but they are not thereby morally free acts. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
And this alone is sufficient to enervate the objections of those free-willers, that exclaim of coaction and compulsion in an irresistible converting work. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII.] Reference
In all that a servant does, he is scarce a voluntary agent, but when he serves himself: all his services otherwise, not flowing naturally from propensity and inclination, but being drawn and forced from him by terror and coaction. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I.] Reference
Whether the collation be free or necessary it must always be gratuitous, to avoid simony; free, that is without coaction; unconditional; public, so that it may be readily proved; and granted within six months from the date of vacancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
As a creaturely product, it is certainly dependent for its development on the coaction of relative forces, both bodily and mental; but its relation to the evil is still only, even when it derives strength from the relation, one of conflict. From Wordnik.com. [Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficent Creator.] Reference
If the radii be supposed to be in contact laterally, a copper disc results, in which the directions of the currents will be generally the same, being modified only by the coaction which can take place between the particles, now that they are in metallic contact. From Wordnik.com. [Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1] Reference
As for unwillingness, (to speak of this last first,) the heathen philosophers generally asserted the freedom of the will, and its inviolable dominion over its own actions; so that no force or coaction from without could entrench upon the absolute empire of this faculty. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II.] Reference
In all its directions of the inferior faculties, it conveyed its suggestions with clearness, and enjoined them with power; it had the passions in perfect subjection; and though its command over them was but suasive and political, yet it had the force of coaction, and despotical. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I.] Reference
And, therefore, the wisdom of astrologers, who speak of future things, hath wisely softened the severity of their doctrines; and even in their sad predictions, while they tell us of inclination not coaction from the stars, they kill us not with Stygian oaths and merciless necessity, but leave us hopes of evasion. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Morals] Reference
And now, having shewn both what gratitude is, and the ground and reason of men's obligation to it, we have a full account of the proper and particular nature of this virtue, as consisting adequately in these two things: first, that it is a debt; and secondly, that it is such a debt as is left to every man's ingenuity, (in respect of any legal coaction,) whether he will pay or no; for there lies no action of debt against him, if he will not. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I.] Reference
The General Assembly, and especially that branch of it which we represent, entertaining a painful sense of the present and prospective dangers resulting from the disorders referred to, have entered upon the consideration of the subject with the hope that an interest commensurate with the issues involved might be awakened, and result in such coaction by the States, or in the creation of a wholesome public sentiment favorable to such action by Congress as may eventuate in active remedies and efficient relief. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Mississippi, December Session of 1862, and November Session of 1863] Reference
Others, and the most, thought fit to give them a trial, both for that it was an usual practice in Europe for two parties that are at odds to make a third judge be - twixt them, and, though the principal parties could not be bound by any sentence of their Court, (for having no jurisdiction they had no coaction, and therefore whatever they should conclude were but advice,) yet it might set - tle peace for the present, &c. From Wordnik.com. [Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society] Reference
(which is rather opposed to coaction from without, than to a determination from within;) forasmuch as it was in the power of the will to have diverted the understanding from its application to any object, before it came to form its last judgment of it; and consequently, the whole proceeding of the understanding being under the free permission of the will, the act of the will closing with this last determination, was originally and virtually free, though formally and immediately, in this latter sense, necessary. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.] Reference
For he does it not through coaction. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2] Reference
Though that special grace which moves, excites, impels and urges to obey, physically moves the understanding and the inclination of man, so that he cannot be otherwise than affected with the perception of it, yet it does not effect or elicit the consent except morally, that is, by the mode of suasion, and by the intervention of the free volition of man, which free volition not only excludes coaction, but likewise all antecedent necessity and determination. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2] Reference
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