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. 1861. Excerpt: ... those parts waich savor of better sentiments, as a slight sprinkling of honey intermixed with the poison to catch Arminian flies. Then all is plain and unmistakable. Taking this view of them, these article are in substance as follows: 1. Predestination, embracing the election of some to eternal life, and the reprobation of others to eternal death. 2. The Atonement made by Christ, limiting it to "those who were from eternity chosen to salvation, and given to him by the Father, that he should confer on them the gift of faith." 3. Depravity, assuming it to be so deep and thorough that none are able or willing to return to God, without the regenerating grace of the Holy Ghost; thus placing regeneration before repentance in the order of time, and making it indispensable thereto. 4. Free Grace and Free Will, restricting both to the elect; the grace consisting in spiritually quickening, healing, correcting, and sweetly and powerfully inclining the will of the elect to obedience; and the freedom of the will consisting in the disposition thus begotten to obey. 5. Perseverance of the Saints, assuming, in strict accordance with the preceding views, that the elect, thus called, regenerated and inclined to obey God, "will never totally f allfrom faith and grace, nor finally continue in their falls, and perish." The early discussion of these doctrines was not without some good effect. Horror-stricken at their logical consequences, multitudes deserted the Calvinian standard, and went completely over to the ranks of Arminians, or halted midway under the command of Baxter. From that time to the middle of the eighteenth century, ultra-Calvinism, otherwise called Antinomianism, received little support. But the success of the Wesleys in preaching more Scriptural sentiments, ...