The Great Supper; Or, an Illustration and Defence of the Leading Doctrines of Grace in Three Discourses, on Luke XIV, 16-24 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847. Excerpt: ... that it does this harm 1 Only as misrepresented and distorted by its enemies. And this is not our fault, nor the fault of the doctrine. We endeavour to dispense the truth of God just as we find it in the sacred volume. Certain designing party men, in order to render it odious, mix with it soul-destroying error. We hand out what we believe to be the pure water of life from the divine fountain; they add to it the poison of death and then pass it round as our mixture. If, therefore, harm is done, we cannot be held accountable. The whole responsibility, and it is a fearful one, rests upon those misguided men who. for party purposes, give currency to their own wicked perversions of our system. It is the poison they infuse into the cup which does all the mischief. Thus we have endeavoured, in continuation, to illustrate and defend some of the principal doctrines of the Reformation as set forth in the Westminster Confession of Faith. Some of you may feel surprise that a system of doctrine so clearly supported by Scripture, and bearing such heavenly fruits, should be so much vilified in our age and country: and that its friends should be peculiar objects of hatred and persecution. We believe, indeed, that we have much reason to complain of injustice. But we are not disposed to cast indiscriminate censure upon the great body of any religious denomination. Among Anti-Calvinists, we are happy to say, are multitudes of persons, both clergymen and laymen, whose piety and--that there are infants in hell not a span long. All this they assert and re-assert with confidence, in direct contradiction to our public standards, and in opposition to all that Calvinists have spoken or written on these subjects. Such is the moral practice of the men who are so much in fear of the ...