A tennis-ball, whether in motion by the stroke of a racket, or lying still at rest, is not by any one taken to be a free agent.
Likewise a man falling into the water, (a bridge breaking under him,) has not herein liberty, is not a free agent.
He is a free agent to do what he pleaseth, and may, if he please, refuse to give anything, or if he gives something, why may he not give what he pleases also?
But grace signifies that God still acts in this as a free agent, not being wrought upon by the misery of the creature, as a procuring cause; but of his own princely mind.
Grace acts as a free agent, not wrought upon by our misery but of God's own princely mind.
The design argument" can never evince that God is a free agent.
The reason of law declared the maniac not a free agent, and the verdict follows, of course Not guilty?
While I was a free agent in the Northern States, I was careful to indulge in no other.
I spoke those exact words in a tone purposely measured and calm, so that they should not be mistaken by our assailants: I have good reason to remember them, for they were the last I ever uttered on American ground as a free agent.
If, instead of being a free agent, I had been bound by an oath to penetrate into Secessia at all hazards, I should have held myself at that moment amply assoilzed of my vow.
He was evidently anxious to find himself a free agent, and this time even the Alabamian did not seek to detain him.
Man is a free agent, and cannot be forced, though he may be frightened: if he swear to a thief for the saving of his life, he voluntarily doth choose the inconveniences of the oath, as a means to save his life.
Man, a free agent, responsible and punishable for his sins, 577-u.
To suppose that man ever imagined himself not to be a free agent until he had argued himself into that belief, would be to suppose that he was in that below the brutes; for he, like them, is conscious of his freedom to act.
Man is a free agent, though Omnipotence is above and all around him.
It is strange that Christian professors have never discovered that, according to the teachings of the Bible, God himself is not a free agent.
Hence, not having things as he desires or wishes them to be, it is evident he is not a free agent, according to the orthodox or technical sense of that term.
A free agent is one who can have things as he wills or wishes, so far as he has the power to make them so.
Of all the absurdities that ever entered the brain of a human being, that of setting God and the Devil both after man, as orthodoxy does, and then call him a free agent, is not excelled.
What Strigel means is that man, being a free agent, must, also in conversion, be accorded the ability somehow to decide for grace.
Again: "The will is not a natural, but a free agent; hence the will is converted not as a natural agent, but as a free agent.
Will is an agent, and hence the only controversy gathered round the question whether the Will is a free agent.
By a free agent is understood an agent that is able to act without restraint, or spontaneously.
The theory of Spiritualism and the theory of Monism agree in holding that the Will is an agent; and, therefore, to both of these theories the question whether the Will is a free agent is a real question.
We have next to consider the ulterior question whether upon this theory the Will may be properly regarded as a free agent.
Man, they say, sins voluntarily, because he chooses or wills to sin; therefore he is a free agent.
It is logically true, therefore, from this doctrine, that man is not a free agent, and therefore not responsible.
With this view of the subject, the writer may call man a free agent if he pleases; but he is only free to unrighteousness, and not to holiness.
As the instinct to live is stronger in the body, no matter what the will to die, so I believe that in the thinking man the will to continue as a free agent is an instinct deeper than our perceptions.
Yet I am no longer a free agent; a superior destiny is directing all my movements.
I can’t quite believe it; for whole months to be a free agent--no longer a part of a great orderly machine, without eyes or ears or will.
If he be not, then he is not a free agent, and the scheme of Necessity is admitted.
But that man is a free agent appears to me obvious, and that in the natural sense of the words.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "free agent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
