and their military adherents; that he would fill the breast of the king, and of all who are in authority under him, with every virtue which can render his steady and mild government acceptable to the most discontented of his subjects; and that, on both sides of the Atlantic, all persons in power may cheerfully use all their influence to promote the speedy reconciliation and lasting union we wish for.
Should piety, loyalty, and charity thus animate your prayers; our day of fasting and humiliation will infallibly usher in a day of praise and general thanksgiving; and the eloquent senator, who, in the house of commons, lately condemned the religious appointment which I vindicate, will himself partake of the universal joy, and be sorry to have declaimed against a royal proclamation, which so justly deserves his assent, concurrence, and praises. I am, my dear fellow subjects, your obedient
LONDON, December 6, 1776.
Abbadie, Dr., quoted, iii, 434, 449, 472, 473
Abel, why God had respect to him and his offering, ii, 523
Abraham, his works of faith, i, 436-his justification, ii, 304-306 Academy, Royal, of Paris, the judicious award of, iii, 402
Acceptance with God, the condition of, i, 39-41-different degrees of, i, 160, 161
Alipius charged with the rebuilding of Jerusalem, iv, 226
Alleine, Joseph, a quotation from his Alarm to the Unconverted, i, 378 Alms-deeds, their importance, i, 220, 221
Alpha and Omega, titles given to Christ, iii, 437
Ambition, what, iii, 288
Ambrose, St., a strenuous defender of the second Gospel axiom, ii, 202
Account of Mr. Fletcher's conversion, America, the case of, widely different iv, 48-53
Adam, his sin not necessary to the manifestation of the eternal Word, ii, 403-his moral state before his apos- tasy, iv, 104
Addison, Mr., quoted, note, ii, 312 Address to earnest seekers of salvation, iii, 376
Adonai, the import of, iii, 431
Advent of Christ, the difference between the first and second, ii, 295 Advocate, what, iv, 350, 351 Affections, their disorder and irregu larity, iii, 282 283
Afflicted persons, suitable advice to, iv, 333, 334, 355, 356 Afflictions, the utility of, iv, 331 Agency, moral, consistent with natural
and revealed religion, i, 17-free, of the Checks, does not cross the designs of God, ii, 227-free, does not make man independent of God, ii, 404-406
does not represent God as disap. pointed when he says, "I would and ye would not," ii, 405-407--free, how it applies to God, angels, and glorified saints, ii, 440-442-involuntary, ren- ders sinners excusable, ii, 442 Agony of Christ, what, iv, 260, 261 Air, reflections on the, iii, 444 Alban's, St., archdeacon of, mentioned, iii, 388
Alexandrinus, Cyrillus, ascribed man's sin to himself, ii, 204-Clemens, his thoughts on man's free agency, ii, 204
Alienation from God, evidences of, iii, 284, 285
from that of Ireland and the Palati- nate of Chester, iv, 457, 458 Animal kingdom, reflections on the, iii, 444, 445
Amos the prophet, foretold the coming of Christ, iii, 526
Anabaptists, German, their Antinomi-
anism, i, 438-the turbulent spirit of, in the time of Cromwell, iv, 464, 468- 471-how Cromwell served them, iv, 471-some mild and moderate, iv, 504 Anecdotes illustrative of the incompre- hensibility of God, iii, 402 Andrews, Bishop, his judgment of the doctrine of the fathers respecting election and reprobation, ii, 208 Angels, the fall of, i, 432-and men made to enjoy a day of salvation, ii, 467, 468
Anger of God, what, i, 179 Ammianus Marcellinus, referred to, iv, 226
Antinomianism, a gigantic foe to Chris- tianity, i, 99, 100 Antinomianism defined, i, 100; ii, 134 -its prevalence among congregations and ministers, i, 103-111-practical, few professors free from, i, 118-123- more danger from this than from Pharisaism, i, 130-why good men fall into it, i, 232--the principal er- rors of, i, 232, 233-Scripture and experience, antidotes against, i, 233 -inseparably connected with Calvin- ism, i, 283-of hearers, often occa- sioned by that of preachers, i, 427- separates faith and works, i, 439- nearly allied to popish Pharisaism, i,
440-drives men into Socinianism, infidelity, and fatalism, i, 444-defiles the sounder part of the Romish and Protestant Churches, i, 446-unmask- ed, what, ii, 585, 586
Antinomians, their execrable persecu- tion of the Quakers, i, 439-deceive the simple by fair speeches, note, i, 470 Anti-evangelical, what, note, i, 459 Apostasy, the possibility of, proved, 184, 185-and misery of man proved from Scripture and reason, iv, 414- 436
Apostates, what the inspired writers say of, ii, 153-158
Apostle, what it signifies, iii, 90
Apostles, false, the portrait of, iii, 82-86 Appeal to matter of fact, its design, iii, 376-the last, to be made to Scrip- ture, in proof of any article of faith, iii, 397
Appointed to be disobedient," the true sense of, ii, 104, 105
Aquinas, Thomas, leaned toward the doctrines of Augustine, ii, 275 Arianism, what, ii, 278
Arius, what he taught concerning the Father and the Son, iii, 399 Arminius, James, an asserter of general redemption, i, 16-what concession he ought to have made, i, 400- deemed a heretic by Antinomians, i, 439, 440-made a noble attempt to restore the doctrines of justice, ii, 277-condemned by the synod of Dort, ii, 276-attempted to find the right way between Pelagianism and Calvinism, ii, 282-maintained an unconditional election of grace, note, ii, 343
Arminianism, what, i, 455-secures to God the honour of all his perfections, ii, 228, 229-maintains that free will is dependent on free grace, ii, 229- its popularity in the reign of King James and Charles the First, ii, 276 -Bible, the ground of, ii, 296–299— what, ii, 320-335-rigid, the error of, ii, 334-Bible, and Bible Calvinism, how united, ii, 339, 340 Arminians, rigid, who, note, ii, 343 -unjustly accused of robbing the trinity, ii, 467, 468-unjustly ac- cused of encouraging infidelity, ii, 468
Armour of God recommended, iii, 25- of Satan, what, iv, 68 Arnobius, his thoughts of man's free agency, ii, 205
Articles, Lambeth, maintain absolute election and reprobation, i, 16 Article ninth of the Church of England repugnant to Calvinism, i, 345, 346
Articles ninth and fifteenth, the sense of, ii, 506-509
Assurance essential to the faith of the Christian dispensation, i, 429 Assurance contended for by the Puri- tans as well as Methodists, i, 580 Atheism originates in pride, iv, 233 Athenagoras quoted, iii, 441 Atonement, finished, the propriety of using that term, i, 200
Aversion, natural, of the human mind to good, iv, 39
Augsburg Confession of Faith, i, 438- extract from, iv, 33
Augustine, a quotation from, i, 171 Augustine asserts the doctrine of gene- ral redemption, ii, 71-asserts the liberty of the human will, ii, 205, 269-his opinion of God's foreknow- ledge, ii, 206, 207-his inconsisten- cies accounted for, ii, 214—main. tained the doctrines of free grace and free wrath, ii, 272-his views of the seventh chapter to the Romans, ii, 549 -wherein right and wherein wrong, ii, 606, 607-a fatalist, note, ii, 185 Axiom defined, ii, 268-Gospel, the first, what, ii, 268-the second, what, ii, 269-observations on the first, ii, 167
Axioms, Gospel, the two first, their
happy union, iii, 373-376-main- tained by Mr. Wesley, i, 18, 19—the importance of maintaining both, ii, 168-170-the mischievous effects of separating them, ii, 250, 252, 273
Baptisms of the Spirit necessary to pu rify and perfect a believer, ii, 632, 633 Baptism, an outward sign of regenera- tion, iii, 332
Barnabas believed the doctrine of the Scripture Scales, ii, 221
Basil, St., wrote in favour of free will, ii, 201
Baxter, Rev. Richard, a quotation from, ii, 157-his opinion of 1 Peter, iv, 8, ii, 222-his opinion concerning cha- rity covering a multitude of sins, note, ii, 222-history of his life and times quoted, iv, 467-472-an able defender of practical religion, i, 24-his thoughts on the doctrine of merit, i, 52, 53, 95-his aphorisms on justi. fication quoted, i, 174-176-his can. did concession, i, 490, 491 Bailey, Dr., proposed as a curate to Mr. Perronet, iv, 397
Beasts, their rebellion against man, iii,
"Beasts of the people," the import of the term, note, iv, 473
Believers, the happiness of, iv, 93, 94—
an address to, i, 571, 572-" shall not make haste," iv, 330 Believing, how far in the power of sin- ners, iv, 327-how far in the power of convinced sinners, iv, 327, 328 Benson, Mr., proposed as a curate to Mr. Perronet, iv, 397-his reason for finishing the "Vindication of Christ's Divinity," iii, 385, 386
Berkeley, Dr., the absurdity of his sys- tem of the non-entity of matter, iii, 392 Bernard, St., concerning the human will, ii, 204
Bernon, Mr., the happy death of, iv, 312 Bethel, the import of the word, iii, 463 Beveridge, Bishop, a saying of, i, 173-
his thoughts on our election, ii, 161, 162-referred to, iii, 487
Bias, the precept he gave to his disci- ples, iv, 234
Bigotry, deaf to argument, &c, iii, 290 Birth, new, described, iv, 141
Blood of Christ, how it cleanses from all sin, ii, 554-558
Bonnet, Mr., some account of, iv, 17 "Book of Life," what it imports, ii, 125 Books, many written on the prophecies, iv, 249
Bradwardine, his famous argument an- swered, i, 411
Bull, Bishop, referred to and quoted, iii, 440-442, 487, 511
Bunyan, John, an unguarded saying of, ii, 42
Burgess, Rev. Anthony, a remarkable quotation from, i, 226
Burkitt, Mr., concerning the Epistle to the Ephesians, ii, 122
Burnet, Bishop, his history quoted, iv, 464, 465-quoted, iii, 415, 416-re- ferred to, iii, 482, 483 Calvin, John, his inconsistency, i, 141- termed absolute reprobation a horri- ble decree, i, 152-did not go so far in speculative Antinomianism as some modern Calvinists, i, 439-his Insti- tutes quoted, i, 561-sometimes main- tains general redemption, ii, 71-a heated controversialist, ii, 274-his two articles against civil enthusiasm, iv, 466
Calvinism, the danger of leaning to, i, 23-the prolific source of Antino- mianism, i, 234-overturned by the Checks, i, 324-its perfect agreement with speculative Antinomianism, i, 339, 340-the fatal effects of, i, 441- 443-renders the death of Christ in a great measure useless, ii, 107, 108- reflects dishonour on all the Divine perfections, ii, 235-237-destroys the second Gospel axiom under pretence of exalting the first, ii, 247, 248-
prevalent in the reign of Queen Eli- zabeth, why, ii, 274-276-the ten- dency of, ii, 279-281-implies that some men shall be saved do what they will, and others damned do what they can, ii, 417-420-irreconcilable with the holiness of God, ii, 420-432-Bi- ble, the ground of, ii, 296-299-what, ii, 300-320-rigid, destroys God's im- partial justice, ii, 322-equally hos- tile to the doctrines of grace and those of justice, ii, 332-rigid, its error cen- tres in denying evangelical liberty, ii, 333, 334-rigid, must be distinguish- ed from the many good men who have embraced it, ii, 332, 333-rigid, confounds the covenants of creating and redeeming grace, ii, 338, 339- Bible, and Bible Arminianism, how united, ii, 339-strangely inconsist- ent, ii, 249-often subversive of the morality of the Gospel, ii, 249, 250— and Antinomianism, the absurdity and unreasonableness of, i, 241, 248 Calvinists, rigid, who, ii, 343-incon-
sistent in using hymns on perfection while they deny it, ii, 652, 653 Candidus, the character of, ii, 9 "Carnal and sold under sin," when properly applied, ii, 540-544-in
what sense the Corinthians were so, ii, 541, 542
Catechism of the Church of England contains her genuine doctrines, ii, 129, 130
Catholic faith, concerning the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, a view of the, iii, 398-402-a view of the sources whence the infidel philosophers draw their arguments against the, iii, 402– 406
Cause of justification, what, note, i, 469 Causes, the distinction between trusting in primary and secondary, ii, 164-167 -the doctrine of first and second, il- lustrated, ii, 239, 240-which con- cur to effect regeneration, iv, 136– which offended our Lord's disciples, ii, 162
Celsus, what he said of the Word of God, iii, 419
Cerinthus, denied the divinity of Christ, iii, 416--what he taught concerning Christ, iii, 608
Chapel at Madeley Wood, the building of, iv, 350
Charity, the great importance of, ii, 357 -359-motives to the exercise of, in relieving the poor, ii,36,37-mistaken ideas about, iii, 285-287-how it re- joiceth in the truth, i, 556-Chris- tian, preached by the true minister, iii, 154-169-the image of God, iii,
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