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II. ANSWER TO MR. TOPLADY'S VINDICA.
TION OF THE DECREES.
Page
.
INTRODUCTION,
77
SECT. I. The Calvinian Scheme evidently im-
plies that some Men shall be saved,
do what they will; and others damn-
ed, do what they can,
79
II. Calvinism upon its Legs : Or a full
View of the Arguments by which
Mr. Toplady attempts to reconcile
Calvinism with God's Holiness, 85
III. Mr. Toplady appeals in vain to Scrip-
ture and Reason to support the Ab-
soluteness and Holiness of the Cal.
vinian Decrees,
99
IV. Calvinian Reprobation cannot be re-
conciled with Divine Justice, 104
V. Much less can it be reconciled with
Divine Diercy,
123
VI. A View of the Manner in which Mr.
Toplady attempts to prove Calvinian
Reprobation from the Scriptures, 129
VII. The arguments answered by which
Mr. Toplady tries to reconcile Cal.
vinism with a future Judgment,
and absolute Necessity with Moral
Agency,
137
VIII. Mr. Toplady's Arguments from
God's Prescience answered,
154
IX. An Answer to the Charges of Robbing
the Trinity, and encouraging Deism, 162
X. Mr. Toplady attempts in vain to retort
the Charge of Antinomianism, and
to shew that Calvinism is more con.
ducive to holiness, than the opposite
Doctrine,
168
SECT. XI. A Caution against the Tenet—“What-
ever is, is right,”
173
XII. Some Encouragements for those who,
from a Principle of Conscience, bear
their Testimony against Absolute
Election and Reprobation,
184
III. POLEMICAL ESSAY.
PREFACE..Reasons of the Title given to this
Tract.- The Doctrines of the Hea-
thens, the Papists, and Calvinists,
concerning the Purgation of Souls
from the Remains of Sin.-- The
Purgatory recommended in this
Book,
191
SECT. I. The Doctrine of Christian Perfection
* placed in a Scriptural Light, 198
II. Pious Calvinists dissent from us chiefly
because they confound the Law of
Innocence, and the Law of Liberty,
or Adamic and Christian Perfection, 206
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 Chris- tian Perfection. That our Church
214
ed it,
holds it, is proved by thirteen Argu-
ments,
223
SECT. V. St. Peter and St. James declare for Christian Perfection,
241 VI. St. Paul preached Christian Perfec- tion, and professed to have attain-
248
VII. St. Paul was not carnal, and sold un-
der Sin.-The true Meaning of Gal.
v. 17, and of Rom. vii. 14,
261
VIII. An Answer to the Arguments by
which St. Paul's supposed Carnality
is generally defended,
278
IX. St. Paul presents us with a striking
picture of a perfect Christian, by occasionally describing his own Spi. rituality,
290 X. St. John is for Christian Perfection,
and not for a Death-Purgatory, 300
XI. Why the Privileges of Believers under
the Gospel cannot be justly measured
by the Experience of Believers under
the Law of Moses,
310
XII. A variety of Arguments to prove the
Absurdity of the twin Doctrines of
Christian Imperfection and a Death-
Purgatory,
318
XIII. A Variety of Arguments to prove
the mischievousness of the Doctrine
of Christian Imperfection,
332
XIV. The Arguments answered by which
the Imperfectionists support the
Doctrine of the necessary indwelling
of Sin till Death,
343
SECT. XV. The Doctrine of Christian Perfection
is truly Evangelical.- A Recapi.
tulation of the Scripture-Proofs
whereby it is main tained,
368 XVI. The Distinction between Sins and
Infirmities is truly Scriptural.-An Answer to Mr. Henry's grand Ar- gument for the continuance of in- dwelling Sin,
381
XVII. An Address to Perfect Christian
Pharisees,
397
XVIII. To Prejudiced Imperfectionists, . 407
XIX. To Imperfect Believers, who em-
hrace the Doctrine of Christian
Perfection,
424
XX. Address to Perfect Christians, 475
IV. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
499
İ. Observations on the Redemption of
Mankind by Jesus Christ,
II. The Three Princ ples of Life, Intel-
ligence and Love, the Image of the
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,
III. Observations on Fanaticism,
514
518
V. IMPORTANT LETTER ON THE
PROPHECIES.
Respecting the Fall of Anti-Christ and the Mil.
lennium,
531
V1. FRAGMENTS.
Page On Seriousness and Pleasure,
553 On Hypocrisy,
557 On Lukewarmness,
564 On Staying the Mind on God,
566 On Shadrach, &c. refusing to worship the Golden Image,
568 On the Agony of Christ,
571