AN ESSAY ON THE EQUITY OF DIVINE GOVERNMENT, AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF DIVINE GRACE, WHEREIN, PARTICULARLY, THE LATITUDINARIAN HYPOTHesis of indeTERMINATE REDEMP- BY EDWARD WILLIAMS, D. D. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?—Geu. xviii. 25. And he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the Why doth he yet find fault? for who hath resisted his will? Nay but, O man, The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are LONDON: Published by J. Burditt, Paternoster Row; sold also by Maxwell and Wilson, Booksellers. 1809, Containing some preparatory observations. The importance, and yet the awful difficulty of the subject-different systems compared-the system of SOCINUS and his followers-the system of ARMINIUS-the system of the Reformed-plan of this work Containing an Explanation of the principal Terms relating to the subject under consideration. Equity-Sovereignty—a moral agent-moral evil – that liberty which is essential to moral agency-different kinds of necessity-and whether SECT. I. Of Man, as the subject of moral Goverument 11. Of the Rule of moral Government V. Of the Rectoral intention of the Supreme Governor exhibited blessings VII. Of the Rule and Process of final Judgment Containing a View of Sovereign Grace. SECT. I. Whether Sovereignty, in the Calvinistic sense of the term, II. Of the Sovereignty of Grace in proposing an Ultimate End 141 III. Of the Sovereignty of Grace in the choice of Means *The Sections thus marked have been misplaced by a mistake which |