CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. I. SCRIPTURE SCALES, TO WEIGH THE GOLD OF GOSPEL TRUTH, Page 9 PREFATORY EPISTLE.-Description of a true Protestant-The author's three SECTION I. The cause of the misunderstanding of pious Protestants-View II. General observations on God's free grace, and man's free will-Salvation III. The golden beam of the Scripture scales-The chains by which they are IV. Remarks on the terms of the two covenants-Salvation and damnation V. The importance of faith balanced by that of works, VI. The moral law of Christ, and that of Moses, one and the same; and the X. The doctrine of free grace, and that of free will, farther maintained, XI. A rational and Scriptural view of the ninth chapter to the Romans, XII. Of an unconditional election of sovereign grace, and a conditional II. SCRIPTURE SCALES.-PART SECOND. PREFACE. An invitation to the contending parties to end the controversy, . 137 146 SECTION 1. The Scripture doctrine of the perseverance of the saints, II The doctrine farther weighed in the Scripture Scales, . III The declaration of our Lord and his apostles concerning fallen believers, 153 IV. A double declaration proposed to guard the doctrines of free grace and VIII. The doctrines of free grace and free will, here maintained, are the very -X. The marriage of free grace and free will reflects no dishonour on God's ADVERTISEMENT. It is the author's desire that the following pages should be considered as written for all those whom they exactly suit. And in order to this, he informs the reader that, in general, ZELOTES represents any zealous Solifidian, who, through prejudice, looks upon the doctrine of free will as heretical. HONESTUS-any zealous moralist, who, through prejudice also, looks upon the doctrine of free grace as enthusiastical. LORENZO any man of sense, yet unsettled in his religious principles. CANDIDUS-any unprejudiced inquirer after truth, who hates bigotry, and would be glad to see the differences among Protestants settled upon rational and Scriptural terms. A SOLIFIDIAN is one who maintains that we are completely and eternally saved [solâ fide] by sole faith-by faith alone; and who does it in so unscriptural a manner as to make good works unnecessary to eternal salvation; representing the law of Christ as a mere rule of life; and calling all those who consider that law as a rule of judgment, legalists, Pharisees, or heretics. |