ZELOTES AND HONESTUS RECONCILED:

OR,

THE SECOND PART

OF

AN EQUAL CHECK

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PHARISAISM AND ANTINOMIANISM:

BEING THE FIRST PART

OF THE

SCRIPTURE SCALES

TO WEIGH THE GOLD OF GOSPEL TRUTH, TO BALANCE A MULTITUDE OF OPPOSITE SCRIPTURES, TO PROVE THE GOSPEL MARRIAGE of FREE GRACE AND FREE WILL, AND RESTORE PRIMITIVE HARMONY TO THE GOSPEL OF THE DAY.

WITH A PREFACE,

CONTAINING SOME STRICTURES UPON THE THREE LETTERS OF RICHARD HILL, ESQ., WHICH HAVE BEEN LATELY PUBLISHED.

BY A LOVER OF THE WHOLE TRUTH AS IT IS IN JESUS.

How is the most fine gold changed! Take heed that ye be not deceived; for many shall come in my name, saying, "I am Christ," doctrinal: "I am Christ," moral: but, to the law, and to the testimony; if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them, [or at least because] their wine is mixed with water, and their silver is [partly] become dross."-Bible.

Si non est Dei gratia, quomodo salvat mundum? Si non est liberum arbitrium, quomodo judicat mundum ?—Aug.

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CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

I. SCRIPTURE SCALES, TO WEIGH THE GOLD OF GOSPEL TRUTH,
-PART FIRST,-BEING THE SECOND PART OF AN EQUAL CHECK
TO PHARISAISM AND ANTINOMIANISM.

ADVERTISEMENT,

PREFATORY EPISTLE.-Description of a true Protestant-The author's three

protests,

SECTION 1. The cause of the misunderstanding of pious Protestants-View

of the Gospel axioms or weights of the sanctuary,

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II. General observations on God's free grace, and man's free will-Salvation
originally of the former, and dammation of the latter,
III. The golden beam of the Scripture scales-The chains by which they are
suspended, and a rational account of the origin of evil,

IV. Remarks on the terms of the two covenants-Salvation and damnation
have two causes-The glory of Christ, and original merit, balanced
with the importance of obedience and derived worthiness,

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
Sinai covenant an edition of the covenant of grace,

VII. The doctrine of the preceding section weighed in the Scripture Scales, 53

VIII. What is God's work, and what our own-The two are balanced,

IX. The most wonderful work of free grace, the redemption of the world

balanced with the most wonderful work of free will, the obstinate.

neglect of that redemption,

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
election of impartial justice,

XIII. A view of St. Paul's doctrine in the first chapter to the Ephesians,

II. SCRIPTURE SCALES.-PART SECOND.

PREFACE. An invitation to the contending parties to end the controversy, . 129

Explanation of some terms used in this work,

SECTION I. 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

free obedience,

V. The doctrines of free grace and free will farther maintained by Scrip-

tural arguments,

VI. How prescience is consistent with liberty,

VII. President Edwards and Voltaire's doctrine of necessity considered and

refuted,

VIII. The doctrines of free grace and free will, here maintained, are the very

doctrines of the primitive Church, and Church of England,

XI. The Scriptures hold forth first and second causes, and primary and sub-

IX. The earliest fathers held the doctrine of the Scripture Scales,

X. The marriage of free grace and free will reflects no dishonour on God's

sovereignty,

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XII. The author sums up the opposite errors of Zelotes and Honestus, and

invites them to a speedy reconciliation,

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III. THE DOCTRINES OF GRACE AND JUSTICE.

SECTION I. A plain account of the Gospel, and its various dispensations-It

holds forth the doctrines of justice as well as those of grace,

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II. Remarks on the two Gospel axioms upon which the doctrines of grace

and justice are founded,

III. By whom chiefly the Gospel axioms were systematically parted,

IV. Luther and Calvin did not restore the balance of the Gospel axioms; but

Cranmer did,

V. The two modern Gospels, and their dreadful consequences,

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IV. THE RECONCILIATION; OR, AN EASY METHOD TO UNITE
THE PEOPLE OF GOD.

SECTION I. The sad consequence of the division of those who make a pecu-

liar profession of faith in Christ,

285

II. Moderate Calvinists and Arminians may be easily reconciled to each other, 290

III. Eight pair of opposite propositions on which the opposite doctrines of

grace and justice are founded,

IV. Bible Calvinism and Bible Arminianism stated in two essays,

V. Inferences from the two essays,

VI. A plan of general reconciliation and union between moderate Calvinists

and Arminians,

VII. Directions how to secure the blessings of peace and brotherly love, : 350

VIII. Farther motives to a speedy reconciliation,

V. REMARKS ON MR. TOPLADY'S SCHEME OF CHRISTIAN AND
PHILOSOPHICAL NECESSITY.

SECTION I. A view of Mr. Toplady's scheme-It represents God as the first

cause of all sin and damnation,

II. His error is overthrown by fourteen arguments,

III. Twelve keys to open the passages of Scripture on which he founds his

scheme,

402

V. The doctrine of necessity is the capital error of the Calvinists, and the

foundation of the most wretched schemes of philosophy and divinity, 408

IV. The capital objections of the necessitarians to the doctrine of liberty

answered,

VI. ANSWER TO MR. TOPLADY'S VINDICATION OF THE DECREES.

INTRODUCTION,

SECTION I. The Calvinian scheme evidently implies that some men shall be

saved, do what they will; and others damned, do what they can,

II. Calvinism upon its legs: or a full view of the arguments by which Mr.

Toplady attempts to reconcile Calvinism with God's holiness,

III. Mr. Toplady appeals in vain to Scripture and reason to support the ab-

soluteness an holiness of the Calvinian decrees,

IV. Calvinian reprobation cannot be reconciled with Divine justice,

V. Much less can it be reconciled with D vine mercy,

VI. A view of the manner in which Mr. Toplady attempts to prove Calvinian

reprobation from the Scriptures,

447

VII. The arguments answered by which Mr. Toplady tries to reconcile Cal-

vinism with a future judgment, and absolute necessity with moral agency, 451

VIII. Mr. Toplady's arguments from God's prescience answered,

462

IX. An answer to the charges of robbing the trinity, and encouraging Deism, 467