CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

I. SCRIPTURE SCALES, TO WEIGH THE GOLD OF GOSPEL TRUTH,
-PART FIRST,-BEING THE SECOND PART OF AN EQUAL CHECK
TO PHARISAISM AND ANTINOMIANISM.

ADVERTISEMENT,

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PREFATORY EPISTLE.-Description of true Protestant-The author's three

protests,

SECTION I. The cause of the misunderstanding of pious Protestants-View

of the Gospel axioms or weights of the sanctuary,

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II. General observations on God's free grace, and man's free will-Salvation

originally of the former, and damnation of the latter,

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III. The golden beam of the Scripture scales-The chains by which they are

suspended, and a rational account of the origin of evil,

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IV. Remarks on the terms of the two covenants-Salvation and damnation

have two causes-The glory of Christ, and original merit, balanced

with the importance of obedience and derived worthiness,

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V. The importance of faith balanced by that of works,
VI. The moral law of Christ, and that of Moses, one and the same; and the
Sinai covenant an edition of the covenant of grace,

VII. The doctrine of the preceding section weighed in the Scripture Scales, 53

VIII. What is God's work, and what our own-The two are balanced,
IX. The most wonderful work of free grace, the redemption of the world
balanced with the most wonderful work of free will, the obstinate
neglect of that redemption,

X. The doctrine of free grace, and that of free will, farther maintained,
XI. A rational and Scriptural view of the ninth chapter to the Romans,
XII. Of an unconditional election of sovereign grace, and a conditional
election of impartial justice,

XIII. A view of St. Paul's doctrine in the first chapter to the Ephesians,

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II. SCRIPTURE SCALES.-PART SECOND.

PREFACE. An invitation to the contending parties to end the controversy, . 129

Explanation of some terms used in this work,

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SECTION I. The Scripture doctrine of the perseverance of the saints, . 137

II. The doctrine farther weighed in the Scripture Scales,

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III. The declaration of our Lord and his apostles concerning fallen believers, 153

IV. A double declaration proposed to guard the doctrines of free grace and

free obedience,

V. The doctrines of free grace and free will farther maintained by Scrip

tural arguments,

VII. President Edwards and Voltaire's doctrine of necessity considered and

refuted,

VIII. The doctrines of free grace and free will, here maintained, are the very

doctrines of the primitive Church, and Church of England,

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IX. The earliest fathers held the doctrine of the Scripture Scales,

X. The marriage of free grace and free will reflects no dishonour on God's

sovereignty, .

XI. The Scriptures hold forth first and second causes, and primary and sub.

ordinate motives,

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XII. The author sums up the opposite errors of Zelotes and Honestus, and

invites them to a speedy reconciliation,

III. THE DOCTRINES OF GRACE AND JUSTICE.

SECTION I. A plain account of the Gospel, and its various dispensations-It

holds forth the doctrines of justice as well as those of grace,

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II. Remarks on the two Gospel axioms upon which the doctrines of grace

and justice are founded,

III. By whom chiefly the Gospel axioms were systematically parted,

IV. Luther and Calvin did not restore the balance of the Gospel axioms; but

Cranmer did,

V. The two modern Gospels, and their dreadful consequences,

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IV. THE RECONCILIATION; OR, AN EASY METHOD TO UNITE

THE PEOPLE OF GOD.

SECTION I. The sad consequence of the division of those who make a pecu-

liar profession of faith in Christ,

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II. Moderate Calvinists and Arminians may be easily reconciled to each other, 290

III. Eight pair of opposite propositions on which the opposite doctrines of

grace and justice are founded,

IV. Bible Calvinism and Bible Arminianism stated in two essays,

V. Inferences from the two essays,

VI. A plan of general reconciliation and union between moderate Calvinists

and Arminians,

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VII. Directions how to secure the blessings of peace and brotherly love,

VIII. Farther motives to a speedy reconciliation,

V. REMARKS ON MR. TOPLADY'S SCHEME OF CHRISTIAN AND
PHILOSOPHICAL NECESSITY.

INTRODUCTION,

SECTION I. A view of Mr. Toplady's scheme—It represents God as the first

cause of all sin and damnation,

II. His error is overthrown by fourteen arguments,

III. Twelve keys to open the passages of Scripture on which he founds his

scheme,

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IV. The capital objections of the necessitarians to the doctrine of liberty

answered,

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V. The doctrine of necessity is the capital error of the Calvinists, and the

foundation of the most wretched schemes of philosophy and divinity, . 408

VI. ANSWER TO MR. TOPLADY'S VINDICATION OF THE DECREES.

INTRODUCTION,

SECTION I. The Calvinian scheme evidently implies that some men shall be

saved, do what they will; and others damned, do what they can,

II. Calvinism upon its legs: or a full view of the arguments by which Mr.

Toplady attempts to reconcile Calvinism with God's holiness,

III. Mr. Toplady appeals in vain to Scripture and reason to support the ab-

soluteness and holiness of the Calvinian decrees,

IV. Calvinian reprobation cannot be reconciled with Divine justice,

V. Much less can it be reconciled with Divine mercy,

VI. A view of the manner in which Mr. Toplady attempts to prove Calvinian

reprobation from the Scriptures,

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VII. The arguments answered by which Mr. Toplady tries to reconcile Cal-

vinism with a future judgment, and absolute necessity with moral agency, 451

VIII. Mr. Toplady's arguments from God's prescience answered,

IX. An answer to the charges of robbing the trinity, and encouraging Deism, 467

SECTION X. Mr. Toplady attempts in vain to retort the charge of Antinomian-

ism, and to show that Calvinism is more conducive to holiness, than the

opposite doctrine, .

XI. A caution against the tenet, "Whatever is, is right,"

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XII. Some encouragements for those who, from a principle of conscience,

bear their testimony against absolute election and reprobation,

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VII. POLEMICAL ESSAY.

PREFACE.-Reasons of the title given to this tract-The doctrines of the

heathens, the Papists, and Calvinists, concerning the purgation of souls

from the remains of sin-The purgatory recommended in this book, 485

SECTION I. The doctrine of Christian perfection placed in a Scriptural light, 491

II. Pious Calvinists dissent from us chiefly because they confound the law of

innocence, and the law of liberty, or Adamic and Christian perfection, 495

III. Objections against this doctrine solved merely by considering the nature

of Christian perfection,

IV. The ninth and fifteenth articles of our Church, properly understood, are

not against the doctrine of Christian perfection-That our Church holds

it, is proved by thirteen arguments,

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V. St. Peter and St. James declare for Christian perfection,

VI. St. Paul preached Christian perfection, and professed to have attained it, 521

VII. St. Paul was not carnal, and sold under sin-The true meaning of Gal.

v, 17, and of Rom. vii, 14,

VIII. An answer to the arguments by which St. Paul's supposed carnality is

generally defended,

IX. St. Paul presents us with a striking picture of a perfect Christian, by

occasionally describing his own spirituality,

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X. St. John is for Christian perfection, and not for a death purgatory,

XI. Why the privileges of believers under the Gospel cannot be justly mea-

sured by the experience of believers under the law of Moses,

XII. A variety of arguments to prove the absurdity of the twin doctrines of

Christian imperfection and a death purgatory,

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XIII. A variety of arguments to prove the mischievousness of the doctrine

of Christian imperfection,

XIV. The arguments answered, by which the imperfectionists support the

doctrine of the necessary indwelling of sin till death,

XV. The doctrine of Christian perfection is truly evangelical-A recapitula-

tion of the Scripture proofs whereby it is maintained,

XVI. The distinction between sins and infirmities is truly Scriptural-An

answer to Mr. Henry's grand argument for the continuance of indwell-

ing sin,

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XVII. An address to perfect Christian Pharisees,

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XVIII. To prejudiced imperfectionists,

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XIX. To imperfect believers, who embrace the doctrine of Christian perfection, 627

XX. Address to perfect Christians,

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