ZELOTES AND HONESTUS RECONCILED: OR, THE SECOND PART OF AN EQUAL CHECK TO PHARISAISM AND ANTINOMIANISM: BEING THE FIRST PART OF THE SCRIPTURE SCALES TO WEIGH the gold oF GOSPEL TRUTH, TO BALANCE A MULTITUDE OF OPPOSITE WITH A PREFACE, CONTAINING SOME STRICTURES UPON THE THREE LETTERS OF RICHARD HILL, ESQ., BY A LOVER OF THE WHOLE TRUTH AS IT IS IN JESUS. How is the most fine gold changed! Take heed that ye be not deceived; for many shall come Si non est Dei gratia, quomodo salvat mundum? Si non est liberum arbitrium, quomodo CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. I. SCRIPTURE SCALES, TO WEIGH THE GOLD OF GOSPEL TRUTH, Page 9 SECTION I. The cause of the misunderstanding of pious Protestants-View II. General observations on God's free grace, and man's free will-Salvation III. The golden beam of the Scripture scales-The chains by which they are IV. Remarks on the terms of the two covenants-Salvation and damnation 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 X. The doctrine of free grace, and that of free will, farther maintained, XIII. A view of St. Paul's doctrine in the first chapter to the Ephesians, 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, SECTION I. The Scripture doctrine of the perseverance of the saints, II. The doctrine farther weighed in the Scripture Scales, 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 V. The doctrines of free grace and free will farther maintained by Scrip- VI. How prescience is consistent with liberty, VII. President Edwards and Voltaire's doctrine of necessity considered and VIII. The doctrines of free grace and free will, here maintained, are the very IX. The earliest fathers held the doctrine of the Scripture Scales, XI. The Scriptures hold forth first and second causes, and primary and sub- SECTION I. A plain account of the Gospel, and its various dispensations-It II. Remarks on the two Gospel axioms upon which the doctrines of grace III. By whom chiefly the Gospel axioms were systematically parted, IV. Luther and Calvin did not restore the balance of the Gospel axioms; but . SECTION I. The sad consequence of the division of those who make a pecu- liar profession of faith in Christ, 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 INTRODUCTION, 367 III. Twelve keys to open the passages of Scripture on which he founds his IV. The capital objections of the necessitarians to the doctrine of liberty 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. 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. 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 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 . |