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THE
WORKS
OF
SAMUEL HOPKINS, D. D.,
FIRST PASTOR OF
THE CHURCH IN GREAT BARRINGTON, MASS.,
AFTERWARDS PASTOR OF
THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN NEWPORT, R. I.
WITH
A MEMOIR OF HIS LIFE AND CHARACTER.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. III.
BOSTON:
DOCTRINAL TRACT AND BOOK SOCIETY.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by
SEWALL HARDING,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
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III What that Love is, in which all true Holiness consists,
IV. Self-love shown to be no Part of that Love in which Holiness
consists,
V. The foregoing Account of Holiness and Sin shown to be agree
able to Reason, .
VI Holiness consists in universal Benevolence,
VIL Objections answered,
VIII. Inferences from the foregoing Account of the Nature of
Holiness, .
57
APPENDIX L Answer to Mr. Hart's Remarks on President Edwards's
69
Dissertation concerning the Nature of true Virtue,
SECT. I. Mr. Hart's Objections against Mr. Edwards's making true Virtue
to consist primarily in Benevolence, which has universal Be-
ing for its primary Object, considered and answered,
II Mr. Hart's Objections against Mr. Edwards's Notion of the sec-
ondary or natural Beauty in Virtue, considered and obviated,
III. Mr. Hart's Objections against Mr. Edwards's Account of natu-
ral Conscience and moral Sense, considered and answered,
IV. Mr. Hart's Account of the essential Nature of true Virtue, and
of a defective Sort of Virtue, considered, .
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83
95
APPENDIX III. Answer to Mr. Hemmenway,
Introduction,
SECT. I The Point in Controversy more particularly stated The Meth
Mr. Hemmenway takes to support his Cause-Its Weakne
and Fallacy shown,
II. Remarks on Mr. Hemmenway's particular Arguments to pro
III. A brief Reply to Mr. Hemmenway's Answer to my Argumen
proving the Unregenerate do no Duty,
IV. Remarks on what Mr. Hemmenway says of the Inability of t
A DIALOGUE BETWEEN A CALVINIST AND A SEMI-CALVINIST
AN ADDRESS TO PROFESSING CHRISTIANS,
AN INQUIRY CONCERNING THE PROMISES OF THE GOSI
Preface,.
SECT. I. The Text on which Dr. Mayhew grounds his Discourse,
II. The Doctor's stating the Question examined,
III. What is meant by desiring Salvation, and in what Sense un
generate Persons may be said to do so,
IV., V., and VI. An Examination of the Doctor's Arguments,
VII. A short and plain State of the Case,
VIII. Arguments to prove that there are no Promises of Regene
tion, Grace, or Salvation in the Scripture, to the Exerci
X. The End and Design of Means, and the true Ground of Enco
agement for Men to be in the diligent Use of them in order
their Salvation,
THE TRUE STATE AND CHARACTER OF THE UNREGENERATE.
Preface, .
279
PART L. Are the Unregenerate, when under genuine Convictions, more
guilty in God's Sight than they were in a State of Igno-
rance and Security?
283
SECT. L.
The Question stated,
II
The true State and Character of the Unregenerate under Awa-
kenings and Convictions,
292
IV. Mr. Mills's Evasions,
III. Arguments for the Affirmative,
V, VI, VII. Mr. Mills's Argument examined,
VIII. The Doctrine that Sinners are more guilty in Attendance on the
Means of Grace when awakened and convicted than when in a
State of Security no Discouragement to an Attendance on
Means,
PART II Do the Unregenerate truly comply with, and may they perfectly
obey, the divine Commands?
341
406
418
SECT. L The Question stated, and Arguments for the Negative,
II. III. Mr. Mills's Argument for the Affirmative examined,
IV. Mr. Mills's Inconsistencies,
THE IMPORTANCE AND NECESSITY OF CONSIDERING THE
EXALTED CHARACTER OF CHRIST, .
THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD'S LAW NECESSARY TO THE
KNOWLEDGE OF SIN, .
519
THE CAUSE, NATURE, AND MEANS OF REGENERATION, 543
HOW CHRISTIANS WORK OUT THEIR OWN SALVATION, 579
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