and their military adherents; that he would fill the breast of the king, and of all who are in authority under him, with every virtue which can render his steady and mild government acceptable to the most discontented of his subjects; and that, on both sides of the Atlantic, all persons in power may cheerfully use all their influence to promote the speedy reconciliation and lasting union we wish for.
Should piety, loyalty, and charity thus animate your prayers; our day of fasting and humiliation will infallibly usher in a day of praise and general thanksgiving; and the eloquent senator, who, in the house of commons, lately condemned the religious appointment which I vindicate, will himself partake of the universal joy, and be sorry to have declaimed against a royal proclamation, which so justly deserves his assent, concurrence, and praises. I am, my dear fellow subjects, your obedient
LONDON, December 6, 1776.
Abbadie, Dr., quoted, iii, 434, 449, 472,
473
Abel, why God had respect to him and
his offering, ii, 523
Abraham, his works of faith, i, 436-his
justification, ii, 304-306
Academy, Royal, of Paris, the judicious
award of, iii, 402
Acceptance with God, the condition of,
i, 39-41-different degrees of, i, 160,
161
Alipius charged with the rebuilding of
Jerusalem, iv, 226
Alleine, Joseph, a quotation from his
Alarm to the Unconverted, i, 378
Alms-deeds, their importance, i, 220,
221
Alpha and Omega, titles given to Christ,
iii, 437
Ambition, what, iii, 288
Ambrose, St., a strenuous defender of
the second Gospel axiom, ii, 202
Account of Mr. Fletcher's conversion, America, the case of, widely different
iv, 48-53
Adam, his sin not necessary to the
manifestation of the eternal Word, ii,
403-his moral state before his apos-
tasy, iv, 104
Addison, Mr., quoted, note, ii, 312
Address to earnest seekers of salvation,
iii, 376
Adonai, the import of, iii, 431
Advent of Christ, the difference between
the first and second, ii, 295
Advocate, what, iv, 350, 351
Affections, their disorder and irregu
larity, iii, 282 283
Afflicted persons, suitable advice to, iv,
333, 334, 355, 356
Afflictions, the utility of, iv, 331
Agency, moral, consistent with natural
and revealed religion, i, 17-free, of
the Checks, does not cross the designs
of God, ii, 227-free, does not make
man independent of God, ii, 404-406
does not represent God as disap.
pointed when he says, "I would and
ye would not," ii, 405-407--free, how
it applies to God, angels, and glorified
saints, ii, 440-442-involuntary, ren-
ders sinners excusable, ii, 442
Agony of Christ, what, iv, 260, 261
Air, reflections on the, iii, 444
Alban's, St., archdeacon of, mentioned,
iii, 388
Alexandrinus, Cyrillus, ascribed man's
sin to himself, ii, 204-Clemens, his
thoughts on man's free agency, ii,
204
Alienation from God, evidences of, iii,
284, 285
from that of Ireland and the Palati-
nate of Chester, iv, 457, 458
Animal kingdom, reflections on the, iii,
444, 445
Amos the prophet, foretold the coming
of Christ, iii, 526
Anabaptists, German, their Antinomi-
anism, i, 438-the turbulent spirit of,
in the time of Cromwell, iv, 464, 468-
471-how Cromwell served them, iv,
471-some mild and moderate, iv, 504
Anecdotes illustrative of the incompre-
hensibility of God, iii, 402
Andrews, Bishop, his judgment of the
doctrine of the fathers respecting
election and reprobation, ii, 208
Angels, the fall of, i, 432-and men
made to enjoy a day of salvation, ii,
467, 468
Anger of God, what, i, 179
Ammianus Marcellinus, referred to, iv,
226
Antinomianism, a gigantic foe to Chris-
tianity, i, 99, 100
Antinomianism defined, i, 100; ii, 134
-its prevalence among congregations
and ministers, i, 103-111-practical,
few professors free from, i, 118-123-
more danger from this than from
Pharisaism, i, 130-why good men
fall into it, i, 232--the principal er-
rors of, i, 232, 233-Scripture and
experience, antidotes against, i, 233
-inseparably connected with Calvin-
ism, i, 283-of hearers, often occa-
sioned by that of preachers, i, 427-
separates faith and works, i, 439-
nearly allied to popish Pharisaism, i,
440-drives men into Socinianism,
infidelity, and fatalism, i, 444-defiles
the sounder part of the Romish and
Protestant Churches, i, 446-unmask-
ed, what, ii, 585, 586
Antinomians, their execrable persecu-
tion of the Quakers, i, 439-deceive
the simple by fair speeches, note, i, 470
Anti-evangelical, what, note, i, 459
Apostasy, the possibility of, proved,
184, 185-and misery of man proved
from Scripture and reason, iv, 414-
436
Apostates, what the inspired writers say
of, ii, 153-158
Apostle, what it signifies, iii, 90
Apostles, false, the portrait of, iii, 82-86
Appeal to matter of fact, its design, iii,
376-the last, to be made to Scrip-
ture, in proof of any article of faith,
iii, 397
Appointed to be disobedient," the true
sense of, ii, 104, 105
Aquinas, Thomas, leaned toward the
doctrines of Augustine, ii, 275
Arianism, what, ii, 278
Arius, what he taught concerning the
Father and the Son, iii, 399
Arminius, James, an asserter of general
redemption, i, 16-what concession
he ought to have made, i, 400-
deemed a heretic by Antinomians, i,
439, 440-made a noble attempt to
restore the doctrines of justice, ii,
277-condemned by the synod of
Dort, ii, 276-attempted to find the
right way between Pelagianism and
Calvinism, ii, 282-maintained an
unconditional election of grace, note,
ii, 343
Arminianism, what, i, 455-secures to
God the honour of all his perfections,
ii, 228, 229-maintains that free will
is dependent on free grace, ii, 229-
its popularity in the reign of King
James and Charles the First, ii, 276
-Bible, the ground of, ii, 296–299—
what, ii, 320-335-rigid, the error of,
ii, 334-Bible, and Bible Calvinism,
how united, ii, 339, 340
Arminians, rigid, who, note, ii, 343
-unjustly accused of robbing the
trinity, ii, 467, 468-unjustly ac-
cused of encouraging infidelity, ii,
468
Armour of God recommended, iii, 25-
of Satan, what, iv, 68
Arnobius, his thoughts of man's free
agency, ii, 205
Articles, Lambeth, maintain absolute
election and reprobation, i, 16
Article ninth of the Church of England
repugnant to Calvinism, i, 345, 346
Articles ninth and fifteenth, the sense
of, ii, 506-509
Assurance essential to the faith of the
Christian dispensation, i, 429
Assurance contended for by the Puri-
tans as well as Methodists, i, 580
Atheism originates in pride, iv, 233
Athenagoras quoted, iii, 441
Atonement, finished, the propriety of
using that term, i, 200
Aversion, natural, of the human mind
to good, iv, 39
Augsburg Confession of Faith, i, 438-
extract from, iv, 33
Augustine, a quotation from, i, 171
Augustine asserts the doctrine of gene-
ral redemption, ii, 71-asserts the
liberty of the human will, ii, 205,
269-his opinion of God's foreknow-
ledge, ii, 206, 207-his inconsisten-
cies accounted for, ii, 214—main.
tained the doctrines of free grace and
free wrath, ii, 272-his views of the
seventh chapter to the Romans, ii, 549
-wherein right and wherein wrong,
ii, 606, 607-a fatalist, note, ii, 185
Axiom defined, ii, 268-Gospel, the
first, what, ii, 268-the second, what,
ii, 269-observations on the first, ii,
167
Axioms, Gospel, the two first, their
happy union, iii, 373-376-main-
tained by Mr. Wesley, i, 18, 19—the
importance of maintaining both, ii,
168-170-the mischievous effects of
separating them, ii, 250, 252, 273
Baptisms of the Spirit necessary to pu
rify and perfect a believer, ii, 632, 633
Baptism, an outward sign of regenera-
tion, iii, 332
Barnabas believed the doctrine of the
Scripture Scales, ii, 221
Basil, St., wrote in favour of free will,
ii, 201
Baxter, Rev. Richard, a quotation from,
ii, 157-his opinion of 1 Peter, iv, 8,
ii, 222-his opinion concerning cha-
rity covering a multitude of sins, note,
ii, 222-history of his life and times
quoted, iv, 467-472-an able defender
of practical religion, i, 24-his
thoughts on the doctrine of merit, i,
52, 53, 95-his aphorisms on justi.
fication quoted, i, 174-176-his can.
did concession, i, 490, 491
Bailey, Dr., proposed as a curate to Mr.
Perronet, iv, 397
Beasts, their rebellion against man, iii,
"Beasts of the people," the import of
the term, note, iv, 473
Believers, the happiness of, iv, 93, 94—
an address to, i, 571, 572-" shall
not make haste," iv, 330
Believing, how far in the power of sin-
ners, iv, 327-how far in the power
of convinced sinners, iv, 327, 328
Benson, Mr., proposed as a curate to
Mr. Perronet, iv, 397-his reason for
finishing the "Vindication of Christ's
Divinity," iii, 385, 386
Berkeley, Dr., the absurdity of his sys-
tem of the non-entity of matter, iii, 392
Bernard, St., concerning the human
will, ii, 204
Bernon, Mr., the happy death of, iv, 312
Bethel, the import of the word, iii, 463
Beveridge, Bishop, a saying of, i, 173-
his thoughts on our election, ii, 161,
162-referred to, iii, 487
Bias, the precept he gave to his disci-
ples, iv, 234
Bigotry, deaf to argument, &c, iii, 290
Birth, new, described, iv, 141
Blood of Christ, how it cleanses from
all sin, ii, 554-558
Bonnet, Mr., some account of, iv, 17
"Book of Life," what it imports, ii, 125
Books, many written on the prophecies,
iv, 249
Bradwardine, his famous argument an-
swered, i, 411
Bull, Bishop, referred to and quoted, iii,
440-442, 487, 511
Bunyan, John, an unguarded saying of,
ii, 42
Burgess, Rev. Anthony, a remarkable
quotation from, i, 226
Burkitt, Mr., concerning the Epistle to
the Ephesians, ii, 122
Burnet, Bishop, his history quoted, iv,
464, 465-quoted, iii, 415, 416-re-
ferred to, iii, 482, 483
Calvin, John, his inconsistency, i, 141-
termed absolute reprobation a horri-
ble decree, i, 152-did not go so far
in speculative Antinomianism as some
modern Calvinists, i, 439-his Insti-
tutes quoted, i, 561-sometimes main-
tains general redemption, ii, 71-a
heated controversialist, ii, 274-his
two articles against civil enthusiasm,
iv, 466
Calvinism, the danger of leaning to, i,
23-the prolific source of Antino-
mianism, i, 234-overturned by the
Checks, i, 324-its perfect agreement
with speculative Antinomianism, i,
339, 340-the fatal effects of, i, 441-
443-renders the death of Christ in a
great measure useless, ii, 107, 108-
reflects dishonour on all the Divine
perfections, ii, 235-237-destroys the
second Gospel axiom under pretence
of exalting the first, ii, 247, 248-
prevalent in the reign of Queen Eli-
zabeth, why, ii, 274-276-the ten-
dency of, ii, 279-281-implies that
some men shall be saved do what they
will, and others damned do what they
can, ii, 417-420-irreconcilable with
the holiness of God, ii, 420-432-Bi-
ble, the ground of, ii, 296-299-what,
ii, 300-320-rigid, destroys God's im-
partial justice, ii, 322-equally hos-
tile to the doctrines of grace and those
of justice, ii, 332-rigid, its error cen-
tres in denying evangelical liberty, ii,
333, 334-rigid, must be distinguish-
ed from the many good men who
have embraced it, ii, 332, 333-rigid,
confounds the covenants of creating
and redeeming grace, ii, 338, 339-
Bible, and Bible Arminianism, how
united, ii, 339-strangely inconsist-
ent, ii, 249-often subversive of the
morality of the Gospel, ii, 249, 250—
and Antinomianism, the absurdity
and unreasonableness of, i, 241, 248
Calvinists, rigid, who, ii, 343-incon-
sistent in using hymns on perfection
while they deny it, ii, 652, 653
Candidus, the character of, ii, 9
"Carnal and sold under sin," when
properly applied, ii, 540-544-in
what sense the Corinthians were so,
ii, 541, 542
Catechism of the Church of England
contains her genuine doctrines, ii,
129, 130
Catholic faith, concerning the Father,
Son, and Holy Ghost, a view of the,
iii, 398-402-a view of the sources
whence the infidel philosophers draw
their arguments against the, iii, 402–
406
Cause of justification, what, note, i, 469
Causes, the distinction between trusting
in primary and secondary, ii, 164-167
-the doctrine of first and second, il-
lustrated, ii, 239, 240-which con-
cur to effect regeneration, iv, 136–
which offended our Lord's disciples,
ii, 162
Celsus, what he said of the Word of God,
iii, 419
Cerinthus, denied the divinity of Christ,
iii, 416--what he taught concerning
Christ, iii, 608
Chapel at Madeley Wood, the building
of, iv, 350
Charity, the great importance of, ii, 357
-359-motives to the exercise of, in
relieving the poor, ii,36,37-mistaken
ideas about, iii, 285-287-how it re-
joiceth in the truth, i, 556-Chris-
tian, preached by the true minister,
iii, 154-169-the image of God, iii,
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