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 As it is likely the following pages will not he very 
 pleasing to many, who would rather believe what men say 
 than hear what God aays, I choose to dedicate them to 
 you : being confident that vou would be better satisfied 
 with one single proof from the mrd of God, than ten thou- 
 sand conjccturcH of wen. The onlv proper reason that 
 can be civen, why any doctrine ought to be preached or 
 believed. 18 it has for its foundation the *^ incorruptibU 
 ivord of God :*' and unto this standard must all our rea- 
 sonings be brought and tried. Controversies respecting 
 matters of Religion may, and will, arise among Chris- 
 tians : and as the Spirit of God. speaking in the Scrip- 
 tures. IS the only infallible judge to whom we can appeal, 
 both parties should come to his tribunal, and abide by hia 
 verdict. But, there is nothing more common than for 
 those wHd' atlvocate error to shuffle away from the decisi- 
 on ol 5criptu!*e; respecting the disputed point, and to ap- 
 peal fro *80i*e.^e!ife ral heads, for the purpose of workinc 
 upon the passiobs—bcwildering the mind, and prepossea- 
 sing the judgement ofthase who differ from them. And 
 ijence it is, that sometiftBr patching up a System of their 
 own ransack the whole Bible for a few texts, which af\er 
 they have hammered; and benf, and twisted, like an iron 
 hoop, may seem to support and hold together their hollow 
 contrivance. . . 
 
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 not Rtand without clinging to old tractitinnt anntim«-wor|i 
 pyHtvniH ; or gropes (urward in contttnnt dangur of ttuiQ* 
 bling upon i\\*i dark mountoins of error, and of failing 
 head-long into the awful gulph beneath. VVe need not 
 marvtl^ or wonder, then, that Lover« of the Irnih have 
 been baniahed — imprisoned — starved — and tortured— 
 ApoHlIcs beheaded — and the Saviour of men crucified — 
 whili; . iipoKtora and dupos have been CQunleDancod, hon* 
 oiired, and their names h(ild up far above the pame of 
 Jf$m. The Christian world, ao called, ha^t become divi- 
 ded, and subdivided, into an innumerable host of uameM, 
 ■cctii, and parties : and each ope having their favorite 
 opinickii formed — and strictly »idhering to their own 
 Rules — Creedf — Canons, or ConfosHiona of Faith, in 
 too many ii;f>tr»jice!», pay greater utiention to what their 
 " f^affe*'' ' uny, '.hnn what tffe Scriptures say. And not- 
 wiii. 'tui.ui.ig iitixi infiiiiid variety of opinions which 
 have hr.ou 'urmed of- tbd vc'cd of (iod, such is tlie art, 
 subtlety — and cuniunj^ of the Htfisl uilli flven heads, that 
 aU w*^o r-'inot boli vc ir , s.p<i *iwallow down, the un- 
 Bcri},tutnl doctrnjrq of yirmrntanism, are immediately, by 
 one of his heads, brand-^d wiih Calvinism : while all his 
 other heads raise the H.ji-;i'*D-cRY, Devilism ! Dovilism!! 
 JJut, as the term, '* Calviniat,'* in its popular sense, 
 certainly conveys a general notion of our theological sen- 
 timents, we do not hesitate to appropriate it ; although, 
 ao-reeable to our L( ^d's injunction, we " Call no man 
 father upon the earth." Matt, xxiii. 9. It is true, many 
 excellent checks have been given to this Sevon^headed 
 mons; r, in works much better written than the one now 
 before you ; but they are too veil written : and, most 
 offliern, too bulky and expensive for the generality of 
 rc.'idors. And as there are some who desire clear spe- 
 cilic information on the subject, but eannot obtain it with- 
 out buying, and reading, more books than their purse and 
 time will admit of, it is, therefore, of import arc -::^ that (i/2 
 who are friendly to the truth — those who are inclining 
 to become such — and even its enemies, should be able 
 to procure a book that is cheap, portable, and brief: and 
 yet containing a clear — full— and Scriptural account of 
 those doctrinss which continue to be so awfully misre- 
 presented. 
 
 The writer of that blasphemous production entitled 
 " TiiK Ten IIohns of Calvinism," and which baa bteii 
 
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 ■o artfu ly ■ctUertd amongit you, hat juit cauiin to be 
 a-hamed ofh.a name ; and, moved by fiar, ,f he has no 
 
 tuV^X \l^ ""^T' ^l ••caped." I wa« led to con- 
 elude It must have been from the Tartarean Hegiom • aa 
 Ins apeoch very much reaemblcothat ofthe Prince of that 
 country. Joh. vm. 44. The above named con-ideration" 
 and a desire to adapt something to the genius, and pocketi 
 ol the people, have induced me to write the foJIowinir 
 ^***?»:- ^?t**''»«^«not. l<nowingly. inisreprc-entH 
 any thing I h.ve treated on, and can refer you to all my 
 •ources of .nformaiion, namely, the Scriptwrts of Divine 
 Truth, I am not ashamed to give you my real nam*, and 
 •TATE, answenog to the name, and initials, given on the 
 title page : and that God may strengthen your faith— 
 atTnt""ra T ^f ^^""'"'^ P*'^*^' ^'"^ '" love-iu the cou- 
 
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 >r/t«/ //»« Scripturet Say about PRE DESTLy.iTIO^\ 
 
 For those who have long groped in the dnrkness of 
 a dungeon to be suddenly u«>hored into the full glare of a 
 noonday's sun, it would be more than they could bear. 
 How, then, can it be expected for those who have hither- 
 to been conteat to read those sulect passages, only, v/hicli 
 seemed to favor the erroneous opinions they had formed 
 of the ward of God, to endure such a flood of light thrown 
 upon them at once, as muut convince every one that their 
 deeds aro evil ? Joh. iii. 19. It is not our business to 
 enquire, on the present occasion, Is the doctrine of iV«- 
 (i(;9(t/iaiio)^ a rational, or irrational, doctrine ? But, Is 
 the doctrine of Prcdeslinalion a Scriptural doctrine '/ 
 If it is wo ought to adhere to it — and, if not we ought to 
 ttbandon it. And as it would swell this pamphkt lur be- 
 yond its intended size, to transcribe, at lull length, nil tiu! 
 passages I would nish to refer you to, as bearing upon 
 this nil-concerning subject ; I hope that every one who 
 reads, will do it with his Ijiblp. before him, and carefully 
 turn to every passage refered to, to see whether tjiose 
 things be so, or not. See Joh. v. 39. Acts xvii. 11. 
 
 To Predestinate, (according to Walker's Diction- 
 ary of the English language,) is, •' To appoint hefori- 
 MAND by IRREVERSIBLE dccvee," The word is used in 
 Scripture to show the gracious design of God from all 
 eternity, in appointing some certain persons, whom kc 
 
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 loved in Cliriil, to b« brought by hi* rnrfnuAtm tnV^.iK 
 
 inlheirtmi •ncMollow their own natural corruntione 
 fhoae ^hom (iocj hath thu» cho.en .re Mid tobe •• P L 
 
 dnUnal.', unto tho adoption of children Uy Je.u', Cbr II 
 o h,m«elf, according to the good p)c«.ur, ofhi. will -^ 
 
 •• Doing predfiltnaUd ^coord.nfl f„ the ournn.. If i 
 
 -/km'' ; 7'" A|'o»tlo allribule. il.« «.l,ation of 
 
 .//bol,o»,r.. tolLoir mv,r,g -b„„ rppoinud" to e «„I 
 
 ••tor whom h., did /„,•.<„«,,. |.« .1.0 did p„/.'l/. Vi 
 be con ormod lo .b« ima«c of hi. Soo. lh?t h« n.igU U 
 tl.0 (.r...bo,n among many brechren. Moreover whom 
 ho did ,,.al>.„„aU. .he,n he al.o catUd : .„d whom ,^ 
 r'.«c<l them he «l,o jmlifia ; ,„d whom ho j,,Zd 
 then, ho alBo ;,-/„r,7;,.,I." rt„,„. viii. a9. 30 Thulft il 
 cv.den, thoi, ..iva.io,, w». determined before tie„e-c, ! 
 r.cd on m .,mc-,„d comi...icd in K.crnily. 1 ",' „ ' „ 
 th,, .ham of./;., link,, ,h.. ,ho r«lv«,i„„ o. ,L ,„u h.Z 
 «..d woru u p«s,il,lc (or one link lo be broken, m,e«ul 
 
 Uallrm —••Ju^JTiFtRf)"— ••Glorified » 
 
 "Known unto God arc am, hifi works from the boffin 
 
 doeth.t shall bo /ore rcr : nothing can bo put to it nor 
 
 any thinfTTAKRVPROM it." (Keel i^i ^4) ^VJnl\uT 
 
 that Ood, ''from all i^/erm7tr'' kv;.w tK«^ ^'i *^"' 
 Wniri i\ . j-'irrmiy, KNRw that all thtncs 
 
 Tni IlTdid VoV^"' unes«IIErKEv.NTP.nit ; and sj;^ 
 Hlr ::\ •^"^'^ ^'*'''?' '^' ^»»on HE might have done 
 HE certamly must have Determined that ill //i»Ji 
 HHouLo be a. in:, by virtueofhin 0.,M-.m'U ea^^^^^^ 
 >.ouLu bo unless he Ordained it should be other;ise : and 
 as he did NOT Ordam »t oMmvise, we must either believe 
 that "« Orda.ned It TH.swi.e. or that all fkings are gov- 
 M K^^t'*'"^ ^'^""^'- ^'^ ^«'"g introduced inTo the 
 ro';^tjffi'h'^'"'' Determining'^that hs banefulXt! 
 ahould be felt by man, does not make HIM the Author 
 of either the cause or the effect. ^rmirJans object to 
 this doc rme although it is so plainly revealed, by say! 
 ing '; It niakes God to be tmright^ous, in making such 
 a distinction between hi« creatures " But this objection 
 contains no force, till they can provt that God utm et«i- 
 
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 ml !!r« to any of hit fillen creahiret ; tiiil irhi» o%te» it 
 lo none, they munt th«n prove that he hap no righi to «; rt 
 it to amj — and thnt th« feancrtion of a uomx i« eaveittial lu 
 thn equity ol a (««)D. Had no» God a Sovereign right to 
 creatt na many Jlnp^li aa he phaiiod ? And to cutablUh 
 at many of them aa he aaw proper in rtn oturiial itnto of 
 happineia ? Sco I Tim. y. 'i\. Did h© do wrong in per- 
 tnitling other*!, who were oqjally holy and hnppy, to !all 
 from that ctata of happineaa ; and then punish them lot 
 falling f S«e 3 Petor ii. 4. Jude vi. God, in hia Inter- 
 nal purpose, determined to form niilliona of nirn, and t» 
 create thorn, in Adam who rcpreitonttd them, holy and 
 happy — permi* their reprcacn'ative lo t ' into air — and 
 thereby ruin nil hi« poaiority Rom. v. \^ lie. -ertainly 
 knew man would fall ; and by hia (all ll'c .vorl.l xeould ha 
 filled with ovila of everv kind : for nalut\yl evil ia lh« 
 etiect of moral evil, na all evil owoa ^ origm to mii*. 
 Why did God permit man to fall— and Una entail uooiv 
 all hia poaterity unnumbered woea ? Ho could l.avo 
 made him in auch a stalo, had he seen it proper, that it 
 would have becti unpoBniblc Cor him to linvo (alien. "Oh," 
 aay the Ariminians, '* but Adam nnd nfree'toill, and uiid 
 to act us a rHBZ-*^gent.*' But certainly ho who knew ail 
 Ihinj^r^ knew what use man vwuld make of hia ri{v:v.-u'iU : 
 nnd had ho have gi von him such strongtl. of will na would 
 infallibly havo secured his lutppineas, that could not have 
 doprivod him of his Jree-Afremy : Cor God himsielf ia a 
 Free-Jlirent ; though hia will ia nnchnn^eahly diterniinod 
 to that which is good : and good or>/i/. Elect Jingeh are 
 FRKK-Agenta — so are the souls of glorified nttinlp~-and so 
 will both bo when time is ended : and so would our first 
 parents have been had God have boon pleased to make 
 them so. They might havo been ovor happy, in conse- 
 quence of being invariably /lo/i/, ana iijeir Agency have 
 remained /rcr. 
 
 The most that the doctrine ot Pi-edealinaHcn amounts 
 to ia simply this, That God, before whose Omni«oient 
 eye all thinj^s past, present, and future are exposed aLd' 
 bare, presenting one Eternal now, looking uponth»i Hu- 
 man family as fallen, did ordain the Recovery of an in- 
 numerable multitude of them : ^Rev. vii. 9.) while he 
 was equally pleased to leave the rest in their ruined con- 
 dition. Rom. ix. 18. And thus the Mercy oC God »• 
 glorified in tho Election, Redumption, Sanctificitio'- 
 
 
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 their ir„k-i r , Condemnation of the Vnrethrtd lor 
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 tecledro„ev",h'r.tf "*"''" ' ''"'■• " «• I'ath per- 
 All wh„ »r. ^*™ "',"' *" sanctified." Heb. x 14 
 
 . u»ougn the bevea-headed familv sav «« i» u- 
 a teridencv to rnnrUr »ii «« «aiiniy jjay, It has 
 
 darned to walk in ffood »„rArEnh ll^ tk d" ^'^ 
 
 iog (lieir <,„„ "b,^?;, , ^^'"''^ '!"» Unregen«rato. follow. 
 
 A^i in Biri"4\«ain^,'t GoT Rol 'v!i '7"^ ^d t'^ 
 in conseniience n» Tha* xr . i ^ ""'• ""•• ••; and that 
 
 God into the same extremitV /h^/'ll • "^^ ""«*««« Put 
 
 When he .ou.o n..:::z%j^:t,^:i, r "Ci-: 
 
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 whom God ehosa from among the Nations of the earth to 
 be his peculiar people, he calls his Elect. Isa. lxv. 9. 2*2. 
 Such ot the Human Family as are Chosen by God, from 
 among all nations, toEternallife and Salvattony arc call- 
 ed •' God's Elect,*' or Chosen people. See Titus i. 1. and 
 1 Peter i. 4. Arminians believe in a sort of Election ; 
 but according to their Scheme no man is Elected till he 
 has Repented— Believed— and Relumed to God. Thus 
 do they, blindly, put the effect for the cause, and the 
 cause for the Effect. Making it appear that God can not 
 Elect us, till WE have first Chosen him : and have evi- 
 denced our choice by Repenting, Believing, and Obey- 
 ing ; whereas the Scriptures plainly, and positively de- 
 clare, •' We lovthim, because Ae first /ot)«(iM«." 1 Joh. 
 iv. 19. Moreover, the Bible declares that wk have no- 
 thing to DO in this Election : but, that it is an act of God's 
 distlnguiihing love : See Deut. vii. 8. And that it is not 
 on account of any jrood works either foreseen, or don© 
 by the objects of it : but, of Divine Sovereignty. See 
 Rom. ix. 11. 16. The *' Working Party*' say, ** Elec 
 Hon does not take place before Conversion." The Bible 
 says, it took place " before the foundation of the vorld.** 
 See Eph. i. 4. and 2 Thes. ii. 13. Free-Willers say, "It 
 is Conditional— and may be lost after it is obtained." 
 The Scriptures declare it to be Mbsolute^ and irrevocable. 
 Rom k. 11. and 2 Tim. ii. 19. Those on the Doma 
 System say, ** It is general, and all are alike interested 
 in it. But, Christ declares it is /x^rwnoi, and the num- 
 ber definite. Matt. xx. 23. Joh. xvii. 2. It extends to 
 some of the chief of sinners. 1 Tim. i. 16. The mean9^ 
 are Sa.ictification and Holiness : and the End eternal 
 glory. Eph. ii. 10. 1 Thess. v. 9. The Elect being 
 Chosen in Christ, as their Head, are unalterably ordain- 
 ed, and appointed to obtain Eternal life in and through 
 him. See Rom. ix. 23. Acts xiii. 48. Rom. xi. 29. 
 
 The Beast, with one of hi» Arrainian-Heads, says, 
 " The Elect shall be saved do what they wilU* But seeing 
 he has •• blasphemy" " on his heads,'* we need not be 
 susprised at blasphemy coming out of his mouth. *' Ih 
 what they will." If this expression means any thing, it 
 certainly m3ans the I^ect can get to Heaven without 
 either being personally Sanctified — or practically Obedi- 
 ent. The Scripture positively declares they can never 
 get to Heaven without both Sanctification and Obedience ; 
 
i i 
 
 10 
 
 THE SEVEN HEADS 
 
 notwilhstandinff their Salvation ia n«* a j 
 •he one or U.e%.her TnoTn both ''fo'^/'Vh''? '''••" 
 «ecB»K ofiiUclion by which thev wlr.' • ' '?" """ 
 ~' t'A Ordained the r Renew.l fn Ri^C'''*' '° '^'"- 
 truo ilolino,,. Epb. i|. 10. 2 Ti™ i ,'' 'tk!""' ""I 
 be .tout a. much good sense inV»Ti„„ The eII!,"'"'"^ 
 
 who are Cho>en to Eternal l„^T ^^ " P^«»'^"'« "i 
 
 ««, destined to FaUh'rd Uo „tT' nrad"rhe ''? n'"""- 
 pa-sage. : 2 Thes. ii. ,3. i The, iv 3 T^ '^l .""-"S 
 ' Peter i. 2 And then ■• llirTi,; Jil"^ "■ '4. 
 All were l„., i„ MaL,' (RoJ^ ^/^t^' '"' ""™ "'' ■•• 
 but by Chrisfe intercession and rV,:^ . jt """^ ""■«> 
 ">. : (Joh. ,vi:. 9.) and i?i',fLB.»r "^m""' P"^ ^°' 
 cannot be saved. Heb v i 25 r"'? T!? '?>' """ "'-'• 
 »ak. ^A™/„„. the Father o'a ■• ^^ea.lLF'"'^"' l" 
 according to the ^rminian Mode o/re« ' i^nt "h" ""fj 
 have done so had Abraham have died 'ZZI' ^'JZl' 
 
 .nr„ed"HmTrbe a'kr; dT"'^*''.^':''- '^"-h bS' 
 
 fccreed that the Seed ol Abraham »hnj ' '' ""• 
 
 land of Canaan —and X l.^.v "'^ ''°«^<'?'' ">• 
 
 «< "I'l ■^""'»«u , — ana Jtimin%ans are r^^nHv »^ 
 
 Iheo they ,naU have possessed it whether , hi '"^' • 
 left Ea-ypt, or i»ot " 1,. .1.0.- A' ""*'"«' »hey ever 
 
 tinned to bo sC, in the" Lan?." ,1-^ ""'«*" "^^'-^ "»" 
 
 -me time, have" b:e:i!-;:i,}:^°'.tT:ndTf'r "' '"t 
 Strange logic ! We snv Tl,. ,? °' *^ana»n r 
 
 al^o tha, tboy should be brou"™,'r ''":"• ''l'l'"'"'e<» 
 !<• that a„/see Gen xii v' R "h"; 'r*>'iPl' "^^ ^"^e" 
 
 ^^. /he 4;oneme:/:Fhi?sl^:' i^T!::;^TA'.l;^7f ^^^ 
 
 o . . ""^ 01 Urace in their sonU PJ,;i ; ^ a / 
 ■I'is .s done ,vi,h the full co 'se". of .L W ,l f "p'i' 
 makes all his DeonU tn i ^ ' ''"'■ ^^t* 
 
 />o-er. Pa. ex 3 -Oh^ ''":t'''^ in the day of hU 
 ' ^' ^''' says the uubiushing vVork- 
 
i 
 
 
 
 HI 
 
 OF AltMlNIANlKM. 
 
 11 
 
 on cither 
 lat same 
 to Eter- 
 less and 
 e wouJ(l 
 
 iCt WILL 
 
 "They 
 yl Be- 
 ence as 
 »h. i. 4. 
 'i^, and 
 i)at ALL 
 unaller- 
 liowing 
 ii. J4. 
 I- iii. 4. 
 
 ! 8UV3c| 
 
 ray for 
 at ALL 
 eed to 
 and, 
 Would 
 e^ay, 
 DeCcr- 
 ihould 
 It was 
 s the 
 
 say, 
 
 ever 
 
 con- 
 t the 
 aan f 
 
 God 
 inted 
 Mean 
 
 who 
 'Hied 
 J oh. 
 loly 
 
 the 
 i ail 
 God 
 '* his 
 >rk* 
 
 (( 
 
 I 
 
 monger, •* Then God's people are all rtierft Machines, if 
 thev^aro made wilhnrf.** Did anj one ever ace, or hear 
 of/a WILLING Machine ? /never did. See Isa. r.i. 
 *i. Gen. xxi. 12. Mal.i.2. S. Gen. xxvii.33. Lev.xx.JU. 
 
 HEAD III. 
 
 IVhat the Scripturct Say about REPR^n^TIOJS'. 
 
 A Repiiobate, is ** A Man lost to virtue, a wretch 
 abandoned to wickedness." Walker's Die. Amonjj 
 Melaliats this word is used to signify aTiy metal that wiM 
 not bear the trial, or when tried, discovers itself to he 
 adulterate, or reprobate. Thus it is said of the Wicked 
 whom God has rejected : *' RerRODATE silver shall m( n 
 call them, because the Lord hath rvjeded ihem :" — as 
 useless and worthless. Jer. vi. 30. The Reprobate may 
 glitter as though they had some silver, or good, in them: 
 but they are not refined, and will not pass for current be- 
 fore God. A Reprobate mind is one so hardened in, and 
 blinded by wickedness, that it cannot distinguish between 
 good dind evil. Rom i. 28. Isa. v. 20. REi'ROBATioN is 
 generally understood to be an act of God, in which he a 
 
 HOLY WISE INDEPENDENT aild RIGHTEOUS SOVEREIGN, 
 
 Determined to pass by, and leave certain persons of man- 
 kind, in that state of depravity, into which he, from Eter- 
 nity, saw they would faH. Read Isa. lv. 8. 9. and xl. 
 13. Rom. xi. 33. 34 Job. xi. 6. 7. Matt. xx. 15. Rom. 
 ix. 13. 15-22. Rom. iii. 10-20. Matt. xxiv. 40.41. Eph. 
 ii.3. Job. xiii. 18. 1 Cor. iv. 7. Job. x. 26. Hos. i. 6. 9. 
 All Mankind, by nature, are involved in one com- 
 mon mass of corruption : and the Reprobate are those 
 whom God Determined to abandon to the greatest evils, 
 by not delivering them from that ruin in which all are 
 alike involved, through the fall ; and in. withholding from 
 them those graces which arc necessary to Eternal Hap- 
 piness. But, it should be remembered, that God does 
 not Reprobate Men, by making them wicked ; but, by 
 LEAVING them IN their Wickedness s» "ersthemte remain 
 IN that state of Reprobation into which they brought them- 
 selves. God made them upright — They made themselves 
 CROOKED— and, God, knowing they would do so, Deter- 
 mined not to straighten them again : but to let them re- 
 maii that deformed state. Eccl. vii. 2&. The Sam of 
 (he whol« ^, God did not Elect ihem. 
 
 - --^^HBHIH 
 
 
 .,:^ iW^^^K^^^KK^^^M 
 
 jwj^jfb^Hl^^^^l^^^l^^^H 
 
 
 ■■^■^H 
 
I 
 
 »^ 
 
 13 
 
 T«K lEVEN HEADS 
 
 i» Jrawii from the Justice ho o^h«T ['"" ' 0"» 
 God L.. u, look .t Z-Z" ofcur "" '""'^ °' 
 
 Qucsfirii.''„«7.'r''r7,r *••" ""i. -.. 
 
 We fe«rle«ly state thai C.^ "°" '" »"' •^''» ^ 
 
 «ll his/J-rour^ -and indeed Z" "" ""!" ""> '«•"« of 
 
 God hi., could b^'cld^a ;X"«' -fr^"" ;!,^'«" 
 
 claim to it as a Debt. Job x. i n tV^"'"'''' '■/ 
 Pbe,„er who vented the '■ 2>» W >r^/' ?old,Blaa- 
 |;erts. .. all other A m,„,V.„^o Th«( G^""""C "' 
 have been just had be have ■• n«...j u *""''' ""^ 
 itiM without HIS crace «, hfi !^ ',? ^y- """^ '•" 
 does without telli„/„' ;*°;fc:'P *' «"• ' -And Ihl, he 
 and if Gcd was«o?t. Debtor r" ?»f »" »'""0' = 
 How God canbe UNJUST i^L-i?^.,?* " '"" »° know, 
 that which does „^'Ll^„;^:''^'';j'''•^['•on. an, Maa 
 
 than yesterday, an ^™ J„„; ^tS' whom T*" """ 
 nm",?4L-S™' impudently aesert^ tl.r «. n """■ 
 ^BUGfiD to pr„«rf« Salvation fo'r him >■ Ur T' 
 
 Al£ : and if aWb^'^^rf therHan" '.f ""T" •» "»' 
 i« is plain, that Armi»"^s' ifl ° ^* 5'^'' '"«'• Thu. 
 for the Fee-jru^^TcM^n'A ""*"■ ?'.°''* »' contendinir 
 God. and lay him u„"31r 6». ,n""^ '" *" ^^-^"'"f 
 
 n.i..ed:hef;"^l!l!;,a'-r'- ""T "fPO^-P"- 
 tben, no weans of BrMe-cat ». '""''"'" fo' 'hem-Jave 
 to Hell_io be e! «l. JTn.. f ^'^ ""? °'^ "•*« ^own 
 ^n»i„.«„. .re nefer ta 3* J m.Tn'"?-|""'' y«' '^- 
 
 about God's /»>./«e.l"cr«'eV-P«S"' rd""""' 
 of Kindness : while nn* «ni„ J^ariiaiity -^and wani 
 
 lallen Men-and Jtfea»°of GrL« If"""; 'f '^<*''''«' 'or 
 Salvation of «»«aS^ M Zn! ""'''^ them-but the 
 *oiiarfino Grace of P^/ui, 1°"? " ««««'•'<'. by the a- 
 cause (he Eterna? Hot °5^5r"^"'" *^"'"«'- Bat be- 
 SovEKK,o« perSe?:!^,' menTo'f ^°''' "^ « ^'ghteo,!. 
 only te provide Salvation rZ^ /'l''. ""^ Determined 
 
 arriigned at the «!« am, ^"'■' "'^ """ ""'»'»•'. be i, 
 ii «i tne B*» ot //«//m».iJea.(.n_tried by fTornu-- 
 
 and a 
 
 us 00' 
 
 iV 
 
 }59 ni 
 ,i creatii 
 I bute c 
 
 ^ EXER( 
 
 m »t any 
 1 to sav 
 of his 
 i than li 
 
 i POWE 
 
 an Ek 
 it seen 
 Sin wi 
 make 
 ' the ni 
 dence 
 the Sii 
 in i2a£ 
 
 ^ UNJUS' 
 
 right ! 
 T 
 bate si 
 more t 
 any or 
 one w< 
 Let IVl 
 lett SOI 
 Sanpt'i 
 appeal 
 have b 
 use of 
 justly ' 
 impeni 
 were i 
 11. 12 
 '2 Cor. 
 Jude i 
 f sages, 
 that G 
 that w 
 
 5 
 
 "nm- 
 
OP ARMINIANTSM. 
 
 13 
 
 It bj tht 
 n : One 
 Mercy of 
 
 hi» DUB. 
 
 ly Man 1 
 3 least of 
 ^ff which 
 :ould lay 
 »ld Blaa- 
 w," ai- 
 lild Not 
 and lea 
 i this he 
 debtor : 
 know. 
 nyMan 
 3r since 
 as con- 
 pD was 
 God ia 
 o save 
 Thus 
 endinjp 
 Willof 
 And If 
 n Con- 
 could 
 \ Gon- 
 
 — per- 
 -gave 
 
 down 
 etthe 
 »laint« 
 
 wani 
 vdiot 
 It the 
 he a- 
 t be- 
 teous 
 'iined 
 he is 
 
 et 
 
 I 
 
 and a Verdict given, *♦ Gniffy o/'INJUSTFCE." 
 us now glance at the other Objection : his Mercy, 
 
 Mercy is that esaentinl pcfcction in God, "whereby 
 !s9 pities and relieves the distresses of his afDic ?d 
 ,i creatures. Ps. r. 5. Tit. iii. 5. As Mercy is an At.i- 
 1 hute of God it must be infinite in its nature — but, in the 
 1' Exercise of it, it is not''lnfinite in its extent. Nor ill 
 Jt any impeachment of His Infinite Mhncr, his forbearing 
 to save as many souls aa ho might : any more than it is 
 of his Omnipoieni Power, in not Creating more Worlds 
 than he did : and surely the Arminians will not say his 
 Power is limited ? Then why his Mercy ? There is not 
 an Evil in the World but God might have prevented, had 
 it seemed good in liis sight :— And because God pefr)ii//t'rf 
 Sin with all its train of evils to enter the world — Does that 
 make Him the Author of sm and evil ? We see, daily, 
 the many seeming inequal distributions of (he Provi- 
 dence of God : but because it frequently happens that 
 the Sinner is clothed in Robes, while the Saint ^s wrapped 
 in Rags, shall we say that the Disposer of all events is 
 unjust ? " Shall not the Judge of all the Earth do 
 right .?" Gen. xviii. 25. 
 
 The Beast with his third Head says, ** The Repro- 
 bate shall be damned do what they can." This is saying 
 more than what God has said t—nor is it in the power of 
 any one of the Seven-headed fraternity, to prove that anv 
 one was ever damned who did what they cotildio avoid it. 
 Let Men say what they may, it is evident that God halh 
 lett some to perish in their sins. But, What saith the 
 ScHptures ? Read Matt. xi. 20-25. And it will plainly 
 appear that God knet'j the inhabitants of Sodom would 
 have been saved, had he in his Providence have made 
 use of Effectual Means :— and, still those Means were 
 justly withheld : and even those of Capernaum were left 
 impenitent, notwithstanding the superior Means they 
 were lavoured with. Read Matt, xxiii 30-32. Mark iv. 
 11 12. Joh. viii. 43. Joh. x. 26. and Job. xii. 37-40. 
 2 Cor. IV. 3. 1 Pet. ii. 8. Joh. xvii. 9. 2 Pet. ii. 12. 
 Jude IV. 2 Thes. iii. 2. Rev. xvii. 8. Let these pas- 
 sages, out of a multitude that might be given, suffice 
 that God has justly left some to perish in their sins : and 
 that without being the Author of their sins. This is what 
 ^^rminians call '^ Deiilism ;"— still it is Bibleism ' 
 
 B 
 
'■•**-— *-lllfc^. 
 
 u 
 
 TUK lEVEN JlfcADl 
 
 IIKAD IV 
 
 ^Vhal the Scviplures Say about 
 
 Re 
 
 nr.MPTioN, signifies " R 
 
 /-.Kfi«» ^r/-' j« / -•©"•iuro ransom, 
 ir 'r7'"^^ '^*^«"'' '^^^ the doaih of Ch 
 
 
 I>ic. TJiere 
 
 was sucf; 
 
 »•/•/." Walker's 
 
 oionstor 
 
 World, (ill Man c n, Ji.,1 "" ""V"'* <» enter o«r 
 the forLiddefi: ."'"]:?; " i""'' "-/"^'W. to unbar 
 
 entered the worTdthiv, J In'^'"^^^^^ *"^ ^^«'^ 
 
 given them admi;;nce ^ '^'^^ Vo]^ unhappy ,.a„ ,vho had 
 
 mortally wounded -and left L ? 7^''""*^^"-'"""«''^^- 
 ofthe afrdon ,L ^^"^'^"/o'^dead, amongst the "trees 
 ♦i gf.f( en the then unhappy pair Gen iii a t 
 
 withoul-bu could noT.n,„ r ^'r"« ""? ' ^"-'V «'°<"i 
 until a voice ^a" heard "»/'"l'" ^'"'"'^ 'I'e way- 
 
 Th. V • '"'~/'"""' « Ransom!'' Job A^■Jiii "i 
 rhe Redeemer o{ Mm enauited o( Jmlice-'XVh I 
 
 h^,. T""' •■; '^° '^'"'"e.nlt er'"For\.V.rj 
 tnou w»i// save. I must fl#»mo,.,i • /• .1 . *^°^^^'^ihat 
 
 /.a;,p,„o,-and El"r^ct\^X,li:-''~TZ7 '"' '^''" 
 «a.iaficd the de.nands of 'oflfenrfi'J''r ^^'^ '""■ ■''"'^o"- 
 
 1 
 
 -i^nmr 
 
aA. 
 
 OF ARMINIANIS.M, 
 
 rr. 
 
 TIOJV. 
 
 sp ; Pur- 
 
 Walkcr'n 
 stence bc- 
 inge]s into 
 ' enter our 
 L to unbar 
 r was the 
 
 gate (lew 
 —aide hy 
 ending iu 
 nd Deaik 
 1 who had 
 tangled — 
 »e "trec8 
 i. 8. Iu 
 kind, but 
 3 all the/ 
 )on thenj. 
 »to whicii 
 
 unhappy 
 ;4. Ana 
 illed with 
 rcy stood 
 »e way — 
 ing down 
 
 xiii. i>4. 
 ^'bat are 
 
 ALL that 
 ' — shame 
 for iheir 
 ms were 
 itnessed 
 to patri- 
 ae Gen, 
 
 ffending 
 •oken — 
 3ed the 
 
 » to ALL 
 
 Christ 
 wen ar« 
 
 p\n in a far better state than that ot* " Devils" — who 
 never had a ransom ; (1 Tim. ii. G ) arid no man can be 
 lust f«>r Adam'h ain — but for his own actual transgrcsbion. 
 And hcnco it is, that, by iiis removing Original guilt, 
 ho may be said to have '* dud /or all :" (2 Cor. v. 14. 
 1.0.) and made the salvation of all Children and Idiots 
 sure : seeing they wero not made accountable, having 
 never known the iaW : Itom iv. 15. 1 Joh. iii 4. And 
 thus, '^ Wc SPO Jesus who was made a little lower than 
 tiic Antjc'iH — that he by the graf:c of God should tnstc 
 death for every man .'*' that crfcri/ man might be put into 
 a ne^j state of trial. Hcb. ii. 9. Christ, our Rnnnoni, 
 having RBLEASBD a// men from the punishment due to 
 Adam's tin, became tho '* Saviour of all men : but, 
 RSPKCIALLY of thotc that HEL1E.VE t" for they are not only 
 iaved from original sin, but, also, every adua/ transgree- 
 ■ion. 1 Tim. iv. 10. Rom. v. 1. Hom. viii^, 1. And, that 
 tiie number of those, whose actual transgressions the Ht- 
 deemer bore in his o^vn body, (Isa. Liil. 4. 6. 1 Pet. it. 
 24,) was Determined from tho beginning, t4ie Scripturei 
 leave us no room to doubt. For the Saviour aa^is, " I 
 know whom 1 have chosen ;** (Joh. xiii. 18.) but was tho 
 number uncertain, he could not know them ; and the most 
 he could jt)o abla to do would be to guess atthem. j^g^in 
 h» says, *' 1 lay dhion my life for the sheep ; And other 
 iheep I have, which are not ot this fold ; them also I 
 MUST bring, &c." Joh x. 15. 16. Surely rf he knew 
 tehere they were — he cerrainly mus/know who they were: 
 and that he could not have done had it been uncertain 
 how mamj there were : And' wee it possible for some of 
 those Sheep to degenerate and become Goats — it would 
 be equally possible for the Goafs to become Sheep — and- 
 in consequence of such' changes the number of both sheep- 
 and goats would always bg uncertain — and the Saviour 
 himself could never knoic that which was not certain. 
 J?ut the Apostle, also, assures us, " The Z/ord know etii 
 them that are his :" (2 Tim. ii. 19.) and, if so, He must 
 certainly know who are not His : And, if who, how 
 many of them. Read Rom. xi. 7. 8. 1 Peier ii. 8-10. 
 Rev. xvii. 8. Ps. xxxiii. 11^ 
 
 The Beast, with his fourth Jlrminian Head, raises 
 an objection to this Doctrine, by saying, " Then, those 
 for whose actual transgressions Christ did not lay doien 
 his life, must be damned, let Iheiii do, or say, what they 
 
Irt 
 
 THB »|..VEN l|BAD» 
 
 »i;>.rnvETii i,. /.;,„ should .v„r .'tr^A / ?'/ "' '"*'""'«>• 
 
 jector.to produce « .i„Vl7i?,.> '"""^ =•''''»•» Ol-- 
 ■' da,n,ud iho did, or soli "?".'!" '" T^ »"" '"""g 
 »>«»o thev.ny proof of anv'm.^'^^ """'^ •" "<''"'" 
 
 «'.« ever brlieved wl.odid „ ' rl " '/^'•'', P™" """ »">• 
 "Od : (Eph. ii. 8 ) and a"uor„ !!"/""* »' ' '"" f""" 
 there is n^BELiEvmo-sr i .or, ^' "" 'V"' *»••"• 
 • Gospel .en,e) wi^^ou. r^/ ',%:' ' IW "I?, ^"f;""^ On 
 
 «»''W." Whom ohall we b. evS X ?.'',!''*'"',•, """'•^ 
 BiDLE ? The Bible say. -A,'. *'""• °'' "•• 
 
 2 The., iii. a. Let us h^ea'r wJ.m .h "n '""•' '■""'/^i'*. " 
 "/». •• The Son of:\„ ca Je- „''l%^?i.^rr'" ^'"'«"' 
 for MiNv." Matt. XX. 28. Ma,\ x i tLJ"1-' ^"'r" 
 •Imll J„,/i/j, M^«y... i,„ ^fj?'" -'' 4o. Therefore, ■' H« 
 
 Mu. Lui. 11, 1 J. See Rom. viii. 30. 
 
 HEAD V. 
 
 mat th* Scnplurc. Say about the WILL OF MJIJi: 
 
 the |i.''b;^hLr;eTw?;rrr:r """ '■^^.""^ »' 
 
 our Modern Dcclaimora J^Ll ■' """S'- J^'any of 
 
 F»E..„i« ^.u'aXu^,fi';,f:r,\v^''"v^'/-''r' '••• 
 
 /«e and thi- other bound ■ R,., „ "T", ^:"'. the one 
 in mind, that it is the "cry Na,'ur^„ rT,'" ?^.,r" •<" ''*" 
 
 toward God, and to iJ/ unvihlr^ .t . """'^ "t" ^'ep 
 God. For the W'iZi V! V "^ "j"' ""» •>« pleasing to 
 
 does «o a^prove^" "aI rr. ""' ""Sk "'"•^'"•"' *1^» 
 clerstandin'g^ Te Iting^i^" ::e''„^ ' ^Y^"/. .« Uu- 
 /«/ and im awful, (s> Cor iii ,1^ T-.^ ?^ ?"" "'''• '««" 
 to talk about an; oneVe'ng i^ ffiJtA'' '^^ "•'* "'"'"<' 
 which is contrary to their fw^M^ , ' '"' '*'"'»»''^. that, 
 
 «a/«r« ; but to Will that whi.h • "?!"'»"«•. '« of 
 .n. man V.«-..« choose .ha. wChL ol'^^.tl^ T^ 
 
OP ARMINIANISM 
 
 17 
 
 one 
 
 tt 
 
 foved the 
 t tohoaotvev 
 everlanting 
 thoae Ob- 
 boing 
 neither 
 ho did NOT 
 e that any 
 ci*T from 
 ["«, where 
 ieving (m 
 
 , " nay the 
 ©, if they 
 ," or the 
 ^rf.ith,'* 
 R himself 
 a Ramoin 
 re, "Ha 
 . viii. 30. 
 
 acuity of 
 Many of 
 bout the 
 the one 
 to bear 
 )eFREE: 
 ' for the 
 ViLL is 
 no step 
 ising to 
 a Mind 
 or Uu- 
 t/, /auj- 
 absurd 
 ', that, 
 in their 
 » is of 
 
 GIMCE. 
 ) MINJ*^ 
 
 pn can 
 is op- 
 
 » 
 ^ 
 
 I 
 
 noncrl to ? Thv-.e ifl nnthin« more natural than or thn 
 \aUiral man to follow hii FRKn-wii.t. : And .o bent ih 
 i,., upon having hit own uii.l. that whatever oppose, mii 
 ,ri// ho looksi upon as /.is enemy. And hence it ih, Ho 
 rcsi.t«the Holy Spirit, (Act, v.i. 51.) ^^o.e ofBco .t h 
 to convince of .in : (John xvi. B.) «bake. ofToonviction. 
 (Act« XKiv. ^25.) and rojoctstho /i/e that i« offered him by 
 the Snviour. becauBO it i« a Sinritual life : and remain* 
 in a state of /icai/i, because he will ii"f come unto l.hrut 
 for i.iKr.. John v. 40. There is not a thing belonging to 
 O.ace to which corrupt Nature is not opposed : and 
 therefore, the J^ainml man trt/fincr/y patch.-s up^^».< ol.l 
 ra.rs, rnlhor than wear Grace's Robes. Kom. \. .^ 
 
 ° When we talk to the unrenewed man about the im- 
 pnted, and imparled Righteousness o^* Christ, he .mme- 
 diately cries out, " What good thing shall I i)( . that f 
 mriy have eternal life." Matt. xi.x. 16. l*«-"-»"g '7^^) •. 
 that the old Covenant of Works made with our old tnthei 
 Adam, is interwoven iu our very no/ure : and thui there 
 never was, can, or wHl, be one found whocamrto Ch nnt 
 till a stronger than they drew (not dragged) them o h m 
 Soo John vi. 41. - So then," ^ay the ^even-headcd 
 Party, " You moan to say, that Man can neither VVir.r. 
 nor Da !" Wo mofin to say no such thmgs ' ;'»f;^^*» 
 will say. The will of man is opposed to the wdl ol Ijoci. 
 and is only free to whatever is sinful, while unrenewed ; 
 and he wills r ..thcr to be a 8/(U'. of the Devi , than h 
 servant of God : (John viii. 44. 2 Tim. ii. 26 ) nor can 
 his WILL ever be frf.i: to do good till Christ makes it ^m. 
 John viii. 36. We say, also. That man was ' ^^orn .n 
 sin, and shapenin um/ua?/," and while in astute of JV«/mc 
 is neither capable of milin^ or i^auiff that which God rr- 
 quires. See Ps. Li. o. (3. Job xiv. 4 Job xxv. 4. All 
 Men are flesh : (Isa. Lviii. 7.) All flesh is corrupted 
 (Gen. vi. 12.) And Our Lord assures us. - That whuli 
 g born ortho flesh is flesh : (John iii. 6.) and the word 
 of God declares, " They that are in the flesh cannot pleas« 
 God." Rom. viii, 8. Tlut, surely, it they could wiir, 
 and no that which was good, God would be pic ised with 
 them. Acts x. 35. How can a Man please God by chmo; 
 that which he Jcnotvs less of than the Ox does of his ^.ns^- 
 ter's crib .? Isa. i. 3. How can he wdl what he does nn 
 
 understand ? Rom. iii. 11. •^''''»»"jf««,;^'' V-^, ' 'll['^f' 
 - AU men are Conscionabk beings." The Bible telle u:^; 
 
 132 
 
t 
 
 h 
 
 18 
 
 Tm tEVK?f Ht^u, 
 
 the confciVncr ofihn \'rii..,-i 
 
 ft -v. and CMNNOT c" ,"e I ?' 7*"" ''.7 •'» "•" "f A<l.,|. 
 I.a»« (»ny,„,_*|„I"" '"•"""• I I'et. ii. u. They 
 
 wickod. Jcr. „ii. 9 7l,'v .,!:'" '!"' " '' <'"J>"'-l4 
 
 Jer. iv. 22. Thev'i.n ' '""■^/*"^* "'»"» but il is (o £)0 
 
 tlicy arc „ 
 
 Picluro of iho V--„;„/ ' " *^"'''","' Kivc. u* an owlyl 
 " Tho Lord Jookcd dow„ from h" "'" '"""""'« "o^J-. 
 of men, to .eo i( ihor, wor„ ''"V",''l'»n "'« ohildrw 
 -eok God." And who! 1. V."' "'?'.'"'' "'•<l''»««nd .«d 
 who., F.„.w... led"' L"rlue7"^^dS ^^';:Vi'.7'"'.'; 
 
 '')f.p-r °t'' '■'"' '» God ;„,■.;• .-{•,,? °"' '""' ' '•'•" 
 ^>01;. I'H oooD, ^-„ .. N,.V<,„..' . ,'>^ ,.^,''r, '=1 «•". '•'« 
 
 othrr. i-l.nd wore o„c„^„r' :»''="," '>> nature thj, 
 
 ".Lc nor ro„ .\ to »och „?.*"'' ° ""J. '"»' "cither 
 
 ■'Then they „,„„„„ ^W-.ToS.'" ''«";-^7'""». 
 <heir own ic,7/. " We sal Ir /, '" """ ^o*' "f«wi< 
 
 »'v. 12.) and that when Ten c v on^ "if vi-"'' ' ' '''<'». 
 o«", Salvation," they ou»h. .^ .^ ,' ^^""f »«' your 
 
 pleasure." Phil.ii. 12 13 a ,,"'"•' ''o »'^'"'8 good 
 word, were addressed, notlo</r„rf™ """""''er (ho.e 
 auch as were once in dartZ V' r""!'. .'■ *"'"'"-' • 
 
 posed to .«4:(Eph ira/h^^,; '■'• ^«'- '• '•»■) ex- 
 to his favour. RomC' 9 tL ''° '""*' '"'«'" ""^n' in- 
 «he JJevil, {John v il.' 44 ) Vu7h?i'*.K"" "'""'o'^ f"'!'" 
 us own children. John i ^12 R^l''"'.!'. ""■* """3 to he 
 born in n. state of dZa.-f, «°'»- »".'■ '4. They .were 
 
 «"« made them ncu creature, in Cur,,." 
 
 4 
 
or AHMINIANISM. 
 
 in 
 
 'It. I. 15.) 
 
 Kph. iv. 
 
 I of Adul- 
 
 I. They 
 
 rue, bill 
 \' arc not 
 ♦' Work 
 »<^y are, 
 «</, and 
 «n awful 
 Horda, 
 children 
 and and 
 
 W one f 
 , lOach 
 
 • lyiii 
 
 ne thiu 
 ixi. Jl. 
 than 
 ii I.) 
 •cither 
 L' them 
 
 foliovr 
 Piov. 
 ' your 
 J God 
 good 
 those 
 i'cr» : 
 tened 
 
 10.) 
 
 ex- 
 n iD- 
 ithcr 
 be 
 kvere 
 hath 
 
 jMCf. Tit. iii. 6. 3 Tim. i. 0. I Cor. vi f>-ll. A^d 
 eonsAquently, their Wii.i. it curtd of it* forinor ultcr iti. 
 Ability to wii.i. that which m uoon : and a fivod Mvcriion 
 ii wrought in their Will to that which la i.vil. J i'or v. 
 17. Ks'try Regenerate mail haa a ntw »^)irU rvr wiihin> 
 him ! (Kxek xxivi. ^G.) and that tpirU la cunniootty 
 luating, or atriving, againat the /^t/i - (Gal. v. 17. 1U«) 
 8o that a conatant war la carried on agninal kitt, by ihoae 
 whoiiu wii 1. 14 renewed. 'I'iio Kentnul man baa a rvnewed 
 Wii.i. which ia in diri?ct conformity to the wtll of Clud • 
 and hence, he ia tciUinff for Uud to cUoote for hiin : (Pa. 
 xtvii 4.) and having God'a hwi put, into hia rrntiriii 
 mind, and writtaii upon hta n.u heart, (Hcb. viii 10.) to 
 regulate hiewti.Lby, it inaltea him to deny biioN«lf, niid 
 denire nothing ao much as to pleare (iod. Hear ihiu 
 language of one whoie Wii.f. ia reneieed : in the follow- 
 tug paaBogos> 3 Bfim. .xxui- ^> Pa. Lxxtii. '^d. Pa. Lxxxiv. 
 I. '2. Pa. ci 3. Phil. iU. 8. Pa. cxix. C3. Phil. iii. 20. 
 1 Cor. viii. 13. Hab. iii 17-19. I Cor. v. 1. Pa. xxiii. 
 4. Phil. i. iii. Horn. via. IG-IB. 
 
 HEAD VI. 
 
 What the Scripturci Say abcui PERFECT/OX 
 
 PiRriiCTio?^, ia, '* The nfale of being perfect ; — 
 atlrihute of God.'' Walker's Die. Wo maintain tlu> 
 Doctrine of r#fii/, but Deny that of PinrECT, Samttfica- 
 t ion on liarth t because ncilhor the word of God, nor tli.e 
 Oiiperience of any, who evor know the plague of their 
 own heart, can support it, Notwithatandin;'. we hazard 
 a great deal in saying no ; for there are many belonging 
 to the Beaal that has on hi.s hcudn " the name of IJlau- 
 FiiEMf ," who are ever ready to thrust in ibcir " TUf 
 HORNS," and unmercifully ^orc ail who do not defend the 
 unscriptural Doctrino oi Sin legs Veijection, That whidi 
 i» perfect wants nothing. Deut. xxv. 15. God is abso- 
 lutely perfect : and our Saviour exhorts us, " Be yn 
 therefore perfect, even ui your Father which is in UtavtH 
 if i»KRFECT." But, What are we cxh*orted to be perfect 
 in ^ Let the Saviour explain himcelf. Read trom the 
 43 verso to the end of tho 5th chapter of Matthew^ and 
 it will appear plain, that wo are to ho perfect in forgiving 
 injuriea — entertaining strangers — aud doing good to our 
 enemies. Our Lord gives a similar cxlK)rtatioi), in Luke 
 
 I 
 
I 
 
 90 
 
 tm isvRiv riR^Dt 
 
 " Nunh wi, n jiiit man fitni ppEnrirv •»• /r* . 
 •' ) out It \VB% " in 111^ , . f'inrtrr , fUon \t 
 
 nipiad In, w,y.'f V'er II |> //' ""''•"/'•* li«<l cor- 
 <.o(I «mer«,l iiiia Covoimnt iviih Ai,, i ' '*^*""' 
 
 /''•'." I (Jon tvij \' ,h„ i. ■''!": ""■""' ^-^ '*'"' A- 
 
 •■■". *.Mc,;,hr.;c« t"', v;s'^''7 '7"'' ■■ "'"•■ 
 
 I'ntev.iiuar' and ivhn«v«/' u . ^-''I^y^-'d 'Vv/i/m 
 
 ..1.0 p.;/.. ,„. « JbVh'o!::".!! «^p-; -Y.; ';*'-'' 
 
 ha.l, n.e would be ...n,;.;''/?. Mar^if 'o '""'^ '"' 
 Would ihu stilinff otw' > ' , i. i i * *• "'• B"'. 
 
 ■•".» •' Or. Wo^lSi t „.,. t^ ■r-."'::" !.'? ■'^'"- 
 
 and, that hi« „,.X/ .?„ 'i.^- ",''' ''"*'= ''<'«" the case ; 
 '•=■ Tl'«Apos(lol'„u Uav, .°[v'» '?""■ '^'<"" "«'• 
 
 -..0 .,„ i„,„ur;i i .hoi^rir/'fTi' :'''"'^' ^^^^ 
 
 " evident from what (idlow, v'fL Cl.nshanity, as 
 '!•"« io ihe pa/ecl or w.ll ^".^ '"f '"we that was „-i,- 
 
 n.au , oi ihos« wlio wore u.iiustructed iu 
 
 J 
 
■L. jhfc. 
 
 1 
 
 4l.f, 
 
 CVf 
 
 I it iiH iiotr 
 
 (Hon. VI. 
 
 »ny, when 
 ' tor then 
 it tind cor- 
 
 ■ Whoii 
 •"oqiiired 
 nnrity ; 
 
 thoH ;*#r- 
 <? ' willi- 
 xiv. 14.) 
 
 n. Kph. 
 
 if ret ion, 
 •nn : but 
 i Stnlcui 
 
 coiitra- 
 ^"•'// a/#o 
 ' i.\. 20. 
 tt VVick- 
 ••Mnrk 
 
 xxxvii. 
 ^ing tho 
 
 for }ji>i 
 rl told 
 
 Vifig MIC 
 
 that ho 
 But. 
 
 Ti Sin- 
 lis ain- 
 casc ; 
 ten ap- 
 III ver. 
 amon<' 
 e vvtif) 
 7, as 
 
 'if.?s to 
 ed in 
 
 or ARMINIANItlC. 
 
 rhri*tiimity. I Cor. ii. ^-16. Thn iftine Apo«tle, mil 
 
 f. id letter to the «am« poopln ■■yN. " at ptrject 
 •nd telM tUc r. bow h« wiih«d» even their fmr.CTiop;. 
 Read the cha|iter, ('i Or. 13.) and ^ ju witt reftdiiy per- 
 eeivn the Ap<Kitle*» deeire waa n tUoruugh t'e/ormaUon 
 among them : and that they ahouU' not only ocaae from 
 BiH, but grow in grace • anU instead ut'fl(e6o<''{ii//i — eniy- 
 intfu — t«/iii/)rW»</«, and fm^khiiiHyn^ th«^y ihuuld h% li.M* 
 cBRi: and ofoiii mind. Uo they iiot appear to bate been 
 ffomewhat like many of tho Pkrikct ones in otiv day } 
 Tho Apoati^ I'.iul muit certaiwiy appear quite a auai/ in 
 religion, in tho oyciMjrAome of our iNIodeiu Pirfecliautnti . 
 for while they are boasting of linving alro^My arrived at 
 ** Perfeclion'i het^ht/* poor I'aul has lo aiy, ' Not n** 
 though I had already attained ; or were alroody I'EiiiecT." 
 Phil. iii. 12. The best of men have never boon without 
 their tmperfections. VV'hen writing to the Collossians. ho 
 tells them the end of his preaching was that he might 
 '• Proient every man t'EHFtcT IN Chrtat Jeaua ;" (Coi. 
 t. 28.) khatU, perfect ill tt^.' knowledge of the Doctriuei 
 ol Christ ; (Phif. iii. 15. 12 Tim. iii. 17.) or, that th^y 
 might not be found having on their own rightoousness , 
 but, standing in tlie imputed, and imparted, righteoua- 
 nesa of Christ. Col. ii. lO Whou God looks at v.j 
 through Christ, as wo would look at an object ttirough a 
 a glass, he sees us perfect ; there having been a com- 
 plete transfer o( our aim to him ; and iiis rigliteona'.teu 
 to uS. 1 Pet. ii. 'i4. 2 Cor. v. 21. That the Apostle, 
 when writing to the Hebrews, was far behind many of 
 our PerJectionisU aeems plain, (that is, if they have ar- 
 rived at p^^r/edton,) for he says, " Let US oo on untoper' 
 feetion." Heb. vi. 1. Surely a man need not be ainleas 
 to know that if cither iif. or ikcy were at it, they woui^l 
 not have to fro to it. Perfectiunish will often ask, *' Con 
 ain and hoUneaa dwell in tho snme heart ?*' And we 
 answer, They can, and do ; and that every child ol God 
 knows from experience ; and were it not the case, ihero 
 could be no warfare between tho flesh and tho apirit. 
 Gal. v. 17. But, though both /»««; in one heart, they cnn- 
 not both REIGN in ono hcjrt. The Master and ihe Ser* 
 vant may both live under one roof ; biu only the one 
 bears rule. There is a material ditfercnce between ain 
 living ill uq, and we living in sin. And in o der to over- 
 come this diiVicuity, Pi,rJectiom!>t3 have to throw away tho 
 
 r" ' 
 
30 
 
 THE SEVKN HEADS 
 
 '/enlh chapter of Romans, by ""blusl.inslj' J«f»""f; 
 ihat " The Aposllo doo8 not mean what ho »a;,» . B«" 
 ,ha 'he i« writine tho nxporienooof ,«.ne other j^T, wha 
 he Uporienoe.1 himself Ae/are h.s (^"^'\-'""l',l]Z. 
 it muMt appear evident to every one who is not •■■""•ecr 
 V h goted' .hat tho writer is, n». only spenk.ng of A «- 
 «V but of his THf-N pynmt e!iper.encfl. R^O'V, ^^^^l^' f e 
 : .he awful length To which '"-« S?- ,-'^" „ts ^e to 
 
 contraa.cc the opinions they h.ve formed. j\l«*^^;^.^ 
 Lot us Hve to God-die to 8i«w-hang aU our weigni on 
 Chfidt— and hope for glor/. 
 
 HEAD VII. 
 
 Wkai the Scriplure. Say about th.FimL PERSEVE^ 
 JiXCE OF THK Saints. 
 
 TheMaJ, or r.NM. fall of the ««'"»■? f-™t'!l'ot 
 / «^^.^ WphoUevc Is ncona«tent\viHj the U.N ciia.no E 
 
 lfr,:».,'The'»x;;^the,,«,.-«. t.. w»'--/-: 
 
 po«.-p.-<.«"«»-«.'«n«»(-a"'l "AT. of Go... W o be 
 Lve, aUo, that Christ is hk.r of cH '''"'f»' (S^.^Jt^ 
 
 and that .V..L fcc(.e«e,-5. or Sa«,ls «« /"f;""" "f,;;, 
 . . /!-» ••• 1 -v \ ««<i flint hv 7irtue ot Hieir wwum, 
 
 Jiim Rev xxi;1. We allow, that were hey leU.o Ihtc*- 
 iwosth:yw.ulds»o«.ru,vo„. their whole stock of g^^^^^ 
 
 and be rea^ to sell their '>^;,';-S,'j,',tl io f thrsVui 
 pottage that was oftoied. But as ^^"^ ^^'JJT .x,^. wherever 
 L Aix the work of God, wc are ;^«"^f "^^^.^V 7"'7, 
 he heginn tho work he will complete It. P»^^»- »• ^j ^"'^ 
 Armintans sav «' Not so. For a man may be a Joint- 
 
 r Jge^"r "™i-.>'e"y - t^ support this .onu. s,s. 
 
 r;-.^Liii"rr '^^^;^^^^ «- - 
 
 riiihteoumcss there spoUen ot, is no. "'" 'J,. , . 
 of God (Rom i n.) hutoftheZ,a.«, or as t"'d there 
 
 Tl„ t reateni,..' is .nade to one who /.««/».« h.s own 
 WyAJorr and takes a licence froiu H.s nght.om no- 
 
 fcAJSfW" -U'"'"""! 
 
OF ARMlNlANlftM. 
 
 \ 
 
 '^^-^ 
 
 Scripture : (Rom. v. 7_) in » /^^ ^^ ^^^^^ ^h.le 
 
 he may be destitute ot ever^ , „„,„p„„rf dotnpi, 
 
 Scriptures say on »his Head. r- j^eous sjui i ho"'* 
 
 "The ScKifTURKs say, ' »* "^ en. . „f ,he 
 
 a«his way ;" (Job xv... ^ •"1 '''"';,sct rf«v .'■ (P'o». 
 J„.. shines more. NO ™o.:c unto the^^^^^^^ ^^-^^_^ .„„ 
 
 iv. 18.) a-'-l^l'" ..The Lord is round about his people 
 (Prov. x.'iJ.) and ' °L .. p« cxxv 2. The Lord 
 
 Kom henceforth «»*»^"«^ ^Tbelning (i^«- ".vi. 10.) 
 •has declared the end f'^'^j^,!,, foZt and thehills shall 
 
 reoyrUealnsa^l ,-.0 N"' ^^'^f-.TdVs" 
 Udepartout^oUhe,rm^^^^^^^^ 
 
 ^;';.'°nei!her shaU Me, depart Irom ^*- ,■'- j"-; 
 
 ,!„aH3dece.ved : (MaU.xxv^-4^^^^^ Luke xxii. 3^1, 
 
 od for them that their taitn ? ^,,i„ . ,„d 
 
 The s.v.so «--k»/„«f°f has it i7him as a „ :e/( spring- 
 whoever once <l"nl's o' ' g Q^Hst. John iv. 
 
 ing up unto ^■^^'"'■'^^J^Jli' it tuTL will of God, that 
 , I 'rhe Ucdeemer declares it to be t t w _ 
 
 of «« *"«=]' h; ""So^c'^ul h; do^heril of his Father, 
 
 John vi. 36. 4o. ""JJ," ":„.„ him to be lost ? He 
 ifhesuueredoneofthose given him ^ _, ^.^^^ ^, 
 
 declares m the ^o^' P» ^ „ ^^,. „/„„/. lA^m «■" o.^ *•• 
 NEVER pe.»A • «f^""'^ .t,t,.„„, ,^,y, they " can prove 
 Iwnd." John x.,i8^-9 . ^ ,,^, /, The Scupture, 
 the contrary ! f 'Y -l " /„ fc„/d (fcem i<«/o (A« bnu- 
 «ay, ^»«r''' S S"v "u". sa>" the Comforler siuu. 
 Johnxm. 1. 1"°,, ,' /'ornBivF.n : and becamt hx 
 Mdc with them that arc ''«J J J^ ,g ,3 Uc telU 
 
 «„„ they sH*t^ .-;'- ^»':, g,,,,.. ,„e ; „„. >.^i. 
 

 THE srVEN HEADS, kc 
 
 NONE of them is lost : rmd wti.ls that they be with 
 M in glory. John xvii. 12. '20. 24. The Apostle says, 
 "Aa many as were oudainkd to eternal life believed.'''' Acta 
 xiii. 48. How could thoy fall short of that which they 
 were ordained ♦o f" Grace reigns through righteousness 
 unto Eternal life. Rom. v. 21. How can that be, if it 
 ends in timef *' Whom he justijind — them ho also f/lori- 
 Jicd. Horn. viii. 29-39. How could thoy /^crisA and be 
 t/ lor ified too ^ The Saints are said to be, " Vessels of 
 mercii — prepared unto (jlory.*' Rom. i.\. 23, Will not ho 
 who PREPARED thcui unto glory, lead them to (/lory ? It 
 is said, that (Jhrist shall confirm them unto the end. 1 
 Cor. I. 8. 9. Their holding out to the end, does not de- 
 pend on ^/iiCiV faithfulness, but, onihc fuit/ifulness of Gou, 
 who will take good care that no temptation shall be too 
 great for them. See 1 Cor. x. 13 For the want ol room, 
 1 shall now be able only to refer you to a feir more, out 
 of the multitude of passages, and which I hope you will 
 attenavoiy read. See 2 Cor. iii. 3. Gal.ii. 20. Zph. i. 13. 
 J 4. Eph. iv. 30. Phil. i. G. and ii. 13. Col. iii. 3. 4. 1 
 Thes. V. 8. 9. 24. 2 Thes. iii. 3. 2 Tim. ii. 19. Titus ii 
 14. Heb. vi. 17-19. and vii. 25. 1 Pet. i 5. and ii. 9. 
 24. 25. Read 1 John ii 19. and iii. 9. 10. Rev. xix. 9. 
 
 Let us now hear the Sum of the whole Matter : 
 "All things are of God." 2 Cor. v. 18. God is the Air- 
 THOR of every good : and the Wise Plr31itter ot evert/ 
 TAIL. And a Being possessing, (as he does) Infinite 
 Wisdom, can make no mistake ; but mu'='t discern all 
 Consequences ; infinite Powe) can prevent whatever he 
 pleases : while Infinite Goodness must will that which 
 is UEST. The question, then, is, Is this doctrine of Pre- 
 destination scripiurcdhj true ? and not, What are the 
 difaculties connected with the doctrine ^ And whoever 
 takes upon him to bring the legislation of his Creator to 
 the bar of his own understanding, should first be able to 
 measure the length of his etcrmlij, the breadth of hisiw- 
 mtusity, the height of his wisdvni, and the de|)th of his 
 iiECREEs. The Grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ be with 
 you ail. — Amen. 
 
sy he WITH 
 lostle Bays, 
 I'c'f/." Acts 
 vhicb they 
 hteousneas 
 ml bo, ifit 
 ALSO fflori- 
 risk and be 
 * Vessels of 
 Will not ho 
 glory ? It 
 the END. 1 
 oes not clo- 
 ess of God, 
 hall be too 
 nt ol room, 
 more, out 
 pe you will 
 Zph. i. 13. 
 iii. 3. 4. 1 
 d. Titus ii 
 unci ii. 9. 
 V. xix, 9. 
 e Matter : 
 ' is the Au- 
 ER of every 
 b) Infinite 
 discern ail 
 hatever he 
 that which 
 ine of PiiE- 
 hat arc the 
 id whoever 
 Creator to 
 be able to 
 I) ot' his im- 
 lcj)th ofhig 
 ist be with 
 
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