Page Love to God and our neighbour is a radical conformity to the whole law, 192 And lays the foundation for all true obedience, ib. And it is natural to suppose, that he who in such wise begins this work, will carry it on, and so all true Saints persevere to the end. That they must expect spiritual conflicts from remaining corruption. But if the law is abated and altered, the whole scheme is undermined. And so is the whole gospel-revelation as much. Or, if the law means something else than what is supposed. But if the idea, which the Pelagians and Arminians have of God and the law, is right, sin can deserve no punishment, in this world or the next. Is it any matter what men's principles are, if their lives are but good? Will speculative ideas of God beget a sense of his amiableness, in a heart that Are all things right, or wrong, merely because GOD wills them so to be? 80 82 92 Does perfect obedience deserve any thanks at the hands of God? 99 In what sense are our good works rewardable? 100 Is sin an infinite evil? and does it deserve an infinite punishment? Can future obedience make the least amends for past sins? Will the sinfulness and misery of the damned be forever increasing? What influence have false notions of the law on men's religion? Can a man, merely from self-love, love God more than himself? What is it that brings awakened sinners to take all the blame to themselves, Page Do true believers feel themselves wholly to blame for not being perfectly holy? 160 Does God's withholding the sanctifying influences of his Holy Spirit lessen Why does the scripture, in some places, speak of the external advantages of God's visible people, as being more than barely sufficient for their becoming good men, and as though their power was sufficient, although the sanctify- Is it a sin for believers ever to doubt of their good estate? What is the most fundamental difference between the Arminians and Cal- In what sense are wicked men ignorant of their own hearts? Why does a sight of the strictness of the law discourage hypocrites, and kill Which lays a foundation for a supernatural belief of the gospel. Regeneration, faith, repentance, and conversion, connected together. The faith of the legal and of the evangelical hypocrite described. 442-4 -The everlasting life promised to believers, implies the everlasting love The Gospel-way of salvation perfectly adapted to make men holy. 460-61 301 What was implied in the death threatened to Adam? What is it that does most commonly convince men of the doctrine of origin- Why is original sin no oftener spoken of in scripture ? Were we by the fall brought into a state of being worse than not to be ? Does it render sin a less evil, or take away its natural ill desert ? Does it move the divine compassion ? Are the elect, before faith, as much under the wrath of GoD as others, not- 369 377 378 Wherein consists our need of CHRIST, and when is it seen? 124, 378 Why was Adam placed in a state of probation ? 359 Is a state of probation consistent with God's making his creatures' happiness 362 Are all the common mercies, which mankiud enjoy, the effects of CHRIST'S 390 In what sense did CHRIST die for all the world? ib. And in what sense only for the elect? 391 Is a confirmed habit of grace before the first act of faith, or after? 449 125, 378, 444 |