A Vindication of the Protestant Episcopal Church: In a Series of Letters Addressed to the Rev. Samuel Miller. D. D., in Reply to His Late Writings on the Christian Ministry, and to the Charges Contained in His Life of the Rev. Dr. Rodgers: with Preliminary Remarks

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Eastburn, Kirk, & Company T. & J. Swords, and P. A. Mesier. T. & J. Swords, printers, no. 160 Pearl-street., 1816 - 492 páginas

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Página 208 - of the Westminster Confession of Faith. " By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his glory, some men and angels are predestinated unto everlasting life, and others foreordained to everlasting death." " Their number is so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished.
Página 213 - works, to faith and calling upon God. Wherefore, we have no power to do good works, pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a
Página 83 - They also are to be had accursed that presume to say, that every man shall be saved BY the law or sect which he professeth, so that he be diligent to frame his life according to that law, and the light of nature. For holy Scripture doth set out to us only the name of Jesus Christ whereby men must be saved.
Página 215 - thus—" We have no power to do good works, pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, (and working so effectually in
Página 12 - The Lord Jesus, as King and Head of his Church, hath therein appointed a government in the hand of Church officers, distinct from the civil magistrate." " To these officers the keys of the kingdom of Heaven are committed; by virtue whereof they have power respectively to retain and remit sins, to shut that
Página 89 - They who, having never heard the Gospel, know not Jesus Christ, and believe not in him, cannot be saved, be they never so diligent to frame their lives according to the light of nature." " Others, not elected, although they may be called by the ministry of the word, and may have some common
Página 323 - belong unto the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong unto us, and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law:
Página 192 - The rest of mankind, God was pleased, for the glory of his sovereign power over his creatures, to pass by, and to ordain them to dishonour and wrath for their sin, to the praise of his glorious justice."!! • Westminster Confession of Faith, chap. iii.
Página 176 - The rest of mankind, God was pleased, for the glory of his sovereign power over his creatures, to pass by, and to ordain them to dishonour and wrath for their sin, to the praise of his glorious justice."! • Westminster Confession of Faith, chap. iii.
Página 85 - Elect infants, dying in infancy, are regenerated and saved by Christ, through the Spirit, who worketh when, and where, and how he pleaseth. So also, are all other elect persons, who are incapable of being outwardly called by the ministry of the word. Others not elected, although they

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