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.

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

protests,

SECTION I. The cause of the misunderstanding of pious Protestants-View
of the Gospel axioms or weights of the sanctuary,

II. General observations on God's free grace, and man's free will-Salvation
originally of the former, and damnation 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,
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, .

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XIII. A view of St. Paul's doctrine in the first chapter to the Ephesians, 119

II. SCRIPTURE SCALES.-PART SECOND.

PREFACE. An invitation to the contending parties to end the controversy,
Explanation of some terms used in this work, .

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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

free obedience,

VI How prescience is consistent with liberty,

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

tural arguments,

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

refuted,

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VIII. The doctrines of free grace and free will, here maintained, are the very
doctrines of the primitive Church, and Church of England,
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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XI. The Scriptures hold forth first and second causes, and primary and sub.

ordinate motives, .

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

invites them to a speedy reconciliation,

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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.