h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I have been reading Jonathan Edwards' 'On the Freedom of the Will' over the past week. It seems to me to very nicely support the Arminian 'heresy' that he wishes to undermine. Edwards puts forward a sound philosophical argument for 'necessity', a word which is now usually replaced by the word 'determinism'. He then argues that; although it follows that crime and virtue are undeserving, respectively, of punishment or reward; because mankind behaves as if they were so deserving then it is common sense to accept that people have free will. In this he answers no question and merely tells us what we already know. It seems to me to leave the Arminians or determinists with the moral high ground.