The Works

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: vine precepts, I see not what is to be made of the scriptures, nor how it is, that righteousness, goodness, or any thing else which is required of men, should be accompanied, as it isa with the promise of eternal life. PART III. CONTAINING ANSWERS TO OBJECTIONS. principal objections that are made to the...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: vine precepts, I see not what is to be made of the scriptures, nor how it is, that righteousness, goodness, or any thing else which is required of men, should be accompanied, as it isa with the promise of eternal life. PART III. CONTAINING ANSWERS TO OBJECTIONS. principal objections that are made to the foregoing statement of things, are taken from?The nature of original holiness, as it existed in our first parents?The divine decrees?Particular redemption, ?The covenant of works? The inability of man?The operations of the Spirit?and the necessity of a divine principle in order to believing. It may be worthy of some notice, at least from those who are perpetually reproaching the statement here defended, as leading to Arminianism, that the greater part of these objections are of Arminian original. They are the same, for substance, as have been alleged by the leading writers of that scheme, in their controversies with the Calvinists; and from the writings of the latter, it were easy to select answers to them. This, in effect, is acknowledged by Mr. Brine, whe, however, considers these answers as insufficient, and, therefore, prefers others before them. It also deserves to be considered, whether objections drawn from such subjects as the above, in which we may presently get beyond our depth, ought to weigh against that body of evidence which has been adduced from the plain declarations and precepts of the holy scriptures? What if, by reason of darkness, we could not ascertain the precise nature of the principle of our first parents ? It is certain we know but little of original purity. Our disordered souls are incapable of forming just ideas of so glorious a state. To attempt, therefore, drminian Princifiles of a Late Writer Refuted, p. 6. to settle the boundaries..