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SECTION XV.

The doctrine of perfeverance is farther weighed in the Scripture Scales, with the weights of free-grace and free-will

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XVI.

Chrift's thoughts concerning fallen believers and apoilates

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The thoughts of St. John on the same subject.
Thofe of St. Paul and St. James
St. Peter's defcription of antinomian apoftates,
is balanced with St. Jude's defcription of law-
lefs backfliders
No hint is given about the certain, infallible
return of one of the multitude of these back-
fliders

SECTION XVII.

grace

and faith

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The plan of reconciliation between Zelotes and Honeftus The anti-pharifaic Bristol-DECLARATION is adopted, guarded, and strengthened to defend the doctrines of An anti-folifidian, fcriptural DECLARATION is added to it, and balanced with it, in order to guard the doctrines of justice and obedience The fcripture-ground of thefe two Declarations. 218Bishop Beveridge faw the beauty of such a plan. - 220 It is in vain to hope for a lafting reconciliation upon any other

It is unreasonable not to repofe an inferior truft in the fecondary means and caufes of our eternal falvation

To repofe our inferior truft in Chrift is to infult

him.

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How the crowns of the faithful agree with the
Redeemer's crown

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What kind of truft in man and things brings us under the curfe

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It is a very wicked thing to trust the Lord exclu-
fively of every body elfe
The explicit knowledge of the doctrines of grace
and faith, is balanced with the explicit know-
ledge of the doctrines of justice and works

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Which of the two extremes appeared most danger-
ous to Mr. Baxter,-that of Zelotes-cr that
of Honeftus

The Author's thoughts on that delicate subject,
and why he dares not give the preference to
Zelotes
How an unprejudiced gofpel-minifter fteers his
courfe between the errors of Zelotes and Ho-
neftus

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The doctrine of Free-grace is farther maintained against Honeftus by fix arguments

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The doctrine of Free-will is farther maintained

against Zelotes by twelve arguments

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SECTION XIX.

Zelotes produces his first objection to a reconcili-
ation. He cannot reconcile man's free-will
with God's foreknowledge and decrees
The flaw of his argument

Our Lord is introduced as anfwering for himfelf,
and fhowing, by 13 remarks, how his prefcience
is confiftent with our liberty

Why God gives one or more talents of faving
grace, even to those who bury them
A fine obfervation of Archbishop King upon the
confiftency of God's foreknowledge with man's
free-will

The abfurdity of fuppofing, that God cannot
certainly know all the future events which de-
pend upon the will of Free-agents, because
we cannot thus foreknow these events

SECTION XX.

Zelotes's Second objection to a reconciliation. It is taken from the plaufible doctrine of bound-will

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and neceffity

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A general answer to the objection

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What difference* there is between being wil

ling and being free-willing

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What

When I wrote the first Checks I had not fufficiently attended

to

What our liberty does confist in

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Some diftinctions needful to understand the doc-
trines of neceffity and liberty

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All beafts have naturally a degree of brutal li-
berty

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Our liberty increases with our powers
All men have fome liberty in fpiritual, as well as
in natural things. There is abfolutely no na.
tural man [in the Calvinian fenfe of the word]
The fcriptures never mention fuch a being:
Juft the reverfe
272, 275:
To fuppofe that any man is the natural man of
the Calvinifts, is to exculpate him and to charge
God foolishly
Unconverted finners have fome liberty
What misleads the oppofers of liberty
Our various degrees of liberty are inftanced in
natural, civil, moral, and devotional liberty
The abfurdity of pleading, that we have abfo-
lutely no power
The THIRD OBJECTION. of Zelotes to a re-
conciliation, is Prefident Edwards's grand ar
gument for bound will; and his capital objec-
tion against what he is pleased to call Armini-
ani/m.

An answer to it:

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SECTION XXI.

The fourth Objection of Zelotes against a recon-
ciliation

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The Fathers held the doctrine of the Scales with
refpect to free-will as well as free-grace
This is proved by quotations from seventeen of

them

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Auguftin himself was at times for free will 295
See alfo the Appendix on this head-

to this difference.

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Nay,

Whatever clashes there with it, I now rew
nounce as a remain of Calvinian confufion.

In the body of the work, thro' miftake, the author did
not properly diftinguish this objection as the THIRD OBJECTION
of Zelotes.

In what fenfe God's grace may be faid to be ir
refiftible [Note]

Nay, he more than once runs into the extrem
of rigid free-willers
The preceding affertion concerning the Fathers
is fupported by quotations from eminent mo-
dern divines
Bishop Davenant himself, the champion of the
Calvinifts, is forced to grant as much Free
will as the Reconciler contends for
So did Cranmer, who prudently ftood up for
Free-grace and Free-will, and found the ba-
lance of the two gofpel-axioms
So does the church of England in her Articles,
and liturgy
Pelagian, rigid free-willers depart from the doc-
trine of the church of England; not mode-
rate bible-free willers [Note]
Moderate free willers are neither Pelagians, nor
fuch as were formerly called Semi-Pelagi-

ans

SECTION XXII.

Zelotes's fifth Objection to a reconciliation

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The early Fathers held the reconciler's doctrine
A Specimen of Mr. Toplady's Hiftoric proof of
their Calvinism

Barnabas was no Calvinift

St. Clement was a strong perfectionist

His doctrine concerning charity covering our fins

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XXIII.

Zelotes's fixth Objection to a reconciliation
Moderate Free will perfectly agrees with God's
Sovereignty

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An answer to Mr. Toplady's grand argument against free-will, and the pure gofpel, which,

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Polycarp was no Calvinist, but a perfectionist Ignatius far from being a Calvinist, maintained the doctrine of rewards, evangelical worthinefs, and chriflian perfection

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