An essay on the equity of divine government, and the sovereignty of divine grace

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ABILITY, and inability. See power.
Abraham, promise to, 63. St. Paul's il-
lustration of it, 64; observations on, 65.
Adam, what would have been the conse-
quence of his continued obedience, 56,
and of bis posterity, without a Saviour,
57, the first promise made to, 61.
Agent, moral, definition of, 21; perfect,
32; an accountable, ib. in a state of
original probation, 33.

Agents, free, why permitted to sin, 143.
AMBROSE, St. his remark on redemption,
223.

Angeis, their standing owing to sovereign
grace, 188.

Antinomians, how their errors are best
exposed, 432, 435.
Arimanius and Oromasdes, wherein dif.
ferent from the true God, pref. ix.
ARISTOTLE, his notion of metaphysic or
passive power, 483, 485.
Arminianism examined, 156, &c. an his-
toric sketch of modern, 312, &c.
ARMINIUS, the system of, by Saurin, 10.
Assurance, a full, of faith, how best ac-
quired, 474.

Axioms, the two grand, in theology, 306.

BAXTER, Mr. Richard, on creatural de-
pendence, 172.

BEATTIE, Dr. his answer to Hume, re-
marks on, pref. xx; his account of
metaphysics, censurable, 494.
BELLAMY, his controversy with Hervey,
how best adjusted, 454, &c.
BENNET, Rev. W. remarks on his let-
ters on the origin of evil, 522; his
"Thoughts on the primary condition
of intelligent accountable creatures,"
answered, 527, &c.

BOOTH, Mr. Abraham, bis Remarks on
the origin of evil and passive power
animadverted on, 509.

Call, the gospel, how to form just views
of, 415.

CALVIN, his view of redemption, 106; not
sufficiently guarded respecting the
cause of sin, 323; and predestina-
tion, 373.

Cause, the true, of the certain futurition

of moral evil, of radical importance,
pref. x.

Certainty of the event, whether incom-
patible with freedom, 302; prophetic,
remarks on, 348.

Chance, incompatible with wisdom, 3.
Character of God, in reference to a moral
system, pref, xiii.

CHARNOCK, his view of redemption, 107
COLE, Elisha, his remarks on divine so.
vereignty, 150; on particular redemp-'
tion, 213.

Conference, a methodist, in London, 312;
in Bristol, 313; its character, 314.
Consolation, lasting, how promoted, 474.
Correspondences, the science of, what, 114.
Covenant, of redemption and grace, its
internal form and external administra-
tion, pref. vii; the Abrahamic, what,
65; its exhibition, to whom it belonged,
69;
the way of receiving its blessings,
70; the substance, end, and glory of
it, 71; its immutability, ib, the Mosaic,
73; illustrated by Jeremiah and Paul,
74; formula of it, 76; contains an ex-
hibition of grace, 77; not intended to
continue, 78; was of a preparatory
nature, 79; the gospel called a, 80.
Curiosity, all rash, to be avoided, 8, 14.
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DAVENANT, Bp. his view of reprobation,
190.

Decree, not exclusively the ground of cer.
tain futurition, pref. ix; wherein it
differs from science and prescience,
307.

Demonstration, whereiu it differs from au
hypothesis, pref. xii.

Dependence, Fenelon's reflections on, 162;
the extent of creatural, 165; Gale's
reffections on, 165; Baxter's reflec-
tions on, 172.

Design, rectoral and decretive, what, 92;
rectoral, how frustrated, 93; decre-
tive, unfrustrable, ib.; further illus.
trated, 95, 102.

Difference, essential, between Creator and
creatures, pref. xi.
Dispensations, of revealed religion, 55.
DITTON, his remark on the origin of
evil, 184; on the understanding and
will, 186.

Dominion, reflections on God's absolute,
169.

EDWARDS, Dr. Jonathan, his answer to
Dr. Chauncy, 134.
EDWARDS, President, on God's chief end,
146; on original sin, 160; his religious
character, 305; not sufficiently guard-
ed respecting the causation of sin, 323,
345; for what kind of necessity be
pleads, 344.

Election, absolute, misrepresentations of,
refuted, 196; whether inequitable,
203.

End, a chief, and an ultimate, how they
differ, 146; how sovereignty appears
in fixing an ultimate, 148.

Equity, definition of the term, 21, ob-
servations on, 22; divine, the founda-
tion of holy fear, 60.

Evil, moral, the cause of its certain futu-
rition, of most radical importance,
pref. x; its ultimate cause should not
be confounded with the modus of its
origination, xiii; its origin, a difficult
subject, 4, 6, 175; moral defined, 35;
cbservations on the definition, ib.; its
origin, what, 175; demonstrated both
a priori, and a posteriori, 176, &c. 340;
objections answered, 181; Ditton's re-
marks on, 184; all from ourselves,
306; remarks on, 486; physical, what,
ib.; moral, what, 487; metaphysical,
what, 487.

· Exhibition of fayours, termed grace, 386.

Fear, filial, how best promoted, 467.
FENELON, his reflections ou absolute de-
pendence, 162,

FLETCHER, Rev. John, his religious cha-
racter, 305, 306; his efforts to sup-
port Arminianism, 306; his ability and
celebrity, 312; his vindication of Mr.
J. Wesley, 313, &c. his Checks to
Antinomianism, 314; his remarkable
concessions, 319, 346; his inconsist-
ence in opposing President Edwards,
325, 333; his objections to Calvinism
answered, 543, &c.; his mutilated
notion of providence, 357; and of de-
pendence, S62; his singular remark
on God permitting sin, 375; on divine
freedom, 380.

Foreknowledge, of evil, not the cause of it,
193.

Freedom, in a moral agent, what the true

cause of, pref. xii; consistent with
certainty 302; the more claimed for a
creature, the greater is the certainty
of a decretive result, 308; a moral
agent has no more than is needful to
constitute his accountability, 310; the
divine, 380.

GALE, Theophilus, on dependence, 166;
his reflections on the creature's passive
power, 168; on God's absolute do-
minion, 169.

GILL, Dr. John, his answer to Whitby,
161..

GLASS, sec Sandemanians.

GOD, not the source of evil, but of good
only, pref. ix.

Good, all from God, 306.

Gospel, the, called a covenant, 80; es-
sentially different from law, 81; its
sanctions, what, ib.; has a surety, 82;
is the ministration of the Spirit, 83;
spread of the, among the Heathen, 91;
though free to all, is peculiarly adapt-
ed to certain dispositions, 100; its

offers to sinners, 102; spread of the,
among the Heathen, 90, 502.
Government, rule of moral, 51; the pre-
sent plan of, 59; presupposes a display
of grace, 60.

Grace, the foundation of hope, 60; the
display of reedeming, God's ultimate
eud, 144; sovereign, the cause of
safety to angels, 188; special, stated,
according to Whitby, 244; according
to the assembly of divines, 246; ob-
jections to, answered, 248, &c.; in-
fused, and not acquired, Ridgeley's
remarks on, 260; the import of the
term, 385, &c.; objective, what, 390;
required, what, 393; subjective, what,
398; the necessity and importance of
the latter, 401, &c. its nature, 409.
Gratitude, how best cultivated, 471.
H

Habits, infused, whether they supersede
the use of means, 256.

HERVEY, his view of gospel invitations,
79; and Bellamy, how their difference
of sentiments is best estimated, 454,
462. &c.

HILL, Mr. (now Sir) Richard, bis contro-
versy with Mr. Fletcher, 514.
HILL, Rev. Rowland, his controversy
with Mr. Fletcher, 315; his friendly
remarks, 369.

HINDMARSH, his letters to Dr. PRIESTLEY,
114; his curious remarks on the nam-
ber of the beast, 115; and of the form
of God, 123.

Hope, a lively, how best cultivated, 474.
HOPKINS, his remark on providence, 360;
his view of the origin of siu, 420.
HUME, a sophist, rather than a metaphy-
sician, pref. xx.

Humility, genuine, how best improved,

468.

Hypothesis, wherein it differs from demon-
stration, pref. xii.

Influence, special, whether by means of
the word, 261, &c.
Invitations, sincerity of gracious, how
ascertained, 442.

Judgment, the rule and process of the
final, 112; according to the New
Jerusalem Church, 118, 120; the ob-
ject of, what, 122; the respective in-
fluence of equity and sovereignty at
the, 127; further illustrated, 129; the
effects and consequences of it, 1si.
Justification, difficulties respecting, how
best adjusted, 446.

Kingdom, of Christ, errors concerning
the, exposed, 441.

Law, no, could recover fallen man, 67;

as a rule and a covenant, how Best
ascertained, 443.*

Lates, positive, their obligation, 54,
LEIGHTON, Archbp. a quotation from, on
the divine foreknowledge, &c. 5; his
advice to students, 7; his remark re-
specting the origin of evil animadvert-
ed ou; 477, 480,
Liberty, evidence of its existence, 3; or
free will, definition of, 37; a moral
agent has no more, than is needful to
constitute his accountableness, 310;
and necessity, how reconciled, 417.
Locke, remarks on his notion of passive
power, 483; not consistent in his no-
tion of power; 484; his remark on
ideas from a privative cause, examined,
512.

Love, holy, how best excited, 466.
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Magi, the Persian, their error respecting

two eternal principles, how best con-
futed, 426.

MALEBRANCHE, concerning nature and
grace, 144.

Man, at once a passive recipient and free
agent, pref. vii. bis qualifications as the
subject of moral government, 43; his
present state, ib. ; his obligations in-
variable, 47; whence his depravity,
48; whence his obligations, 49.
Manicheans, how their error respecting
two eternal principles is best confuted,
426:

MARSHALL, how to estimate his princi-
ples, 458, 462.

Means, moral, what God requires from,
68; moral, no fecurity to a free agent,
188, 218.

Mediatorship, wherein it differs from sure-
tyship, 105.

Meditation, the author's, in reference to
the difficulty of the subject, 17.
Mercy, the display of it, 143.
Metaphysics, the folly of opposing, pref.
xix, xxi; Dr. Beattie's view of, with
respect to Hume, ib. xx; advantage
of, ib.; remarks on the science of,
494, &c.; Dr. Beattie's account of,
494.

'Minutes of a London conference publish- !

ed by Mr. Wesley, 312; vindicated
by Mr. Fletcher, 313.

Moral agent; see agent.

Moral obligation; see obligation.

Moral evil; see evil.

Necessity, not incompatible with liberty,
pref. viii; decretive, connected with
good only, ix; definitions of, 38; hy-
pothetical, whether inconsistent with
freedom, 302, &c. 377; of prophecy,
333; what kind of, maintained by
President Edwards, 344.

New Jerusalem church, chief tenets of the,
114; remarks on them, 123.
Noah, promise to, 62.

Number of the beast, curious remarks on
the, 116.

Obligation, moral, few have denied, 1;
man the subject of it, ib.; the absur
dity of denying it, ib.; freedom essen-
tial to, 2; whence it arises, 53, 101;
to positive laws, 54; of men to re
ceive the gospel and its blessings, 97;
moral, how best ascertained, 427.
Observer, the Christian, his objections
answered, 510, &c.

Offer, the gospel, remarks on, 102, 104;
the foundation of, 105.

ORIGEN, his remarks on the origin of evil,
4; his opinion of future misery, 132.
Origin of evil, very different from the
mode of its origination, pref. xiii; of
difficult investigation, 46; see evil.
Oromasdes and Arimanius, wherein differ-
ent from the true God, pref. ix.
OWEN, Dr. John, his approbation of
Polhill, 110.

PALEY, Dr. his notion of moral obligation,
wherein erroneous, 429.
Passive power; see power.
Pelagianism, its errors exposed, 440.
Perseverance, the doctrine stated, 274;
and proved 277; not inequitable, 283.
POLHILL, on the rectoral will of God,
103; his view of redemption, 108; his
reasoning on particular redemption,
220....

Positive laws; see laws.
Power, of sinning, and of not sinning, {34;

Adam had no inherent, to preserve
himself, but by participation, 161;
passive, the origin of creatural de-
pendence, 168; observations on the
word, 481; physical, what, 482; me-
taphysical, what, ib.; passive, what,
483, &c.; of not sinning, how applica-
ble to moral agents, 484; Locke's
notion of, not consistent, ib.
Prayer, consistent with sovereignty, 412.

Motives, how the doctrine of, best ascer- Prescience, divine, wherein it differs from

tained, 424.

Nature, of things, remarks on the, 503;'
Dr. Beattie's notion of, ib.
Necessitation to good, what its true cause,
pref. xiii.

science and decree, 307; how recon-
ciled with free will, 421; Saurin's re-
marks on, animadverted on, 479.
Proclamation, the whole of revelation may
be considered as a, 388,

Promise, the first to Adam,61; given for

universal use, 62; to Noah, ib.; to
Abraham, 63.
Punishment, future, whether eternal, 134 ;
objections to eternal, answered, 135.

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Rectitude, perfect moral, what, 36;

wherein different from equity, ib.
Rectoral design; see design.
Redemption, particular, stated, 211, 216;
objections to, answered, 217, 218, &c.;
St. Ambrose's remarks on, 223; the
extent of, how best ascertained, 445.
Regeneration, the doctrine of, how re-
lieved from many difficulties, 453.
REID, Dr. his remark on the words
"passive power" animadverted on,
483.

Religion, personal, what principles be-
friend, 463.

Reprobation, in Dr. Whitby's sense of it,
can have no existence, 189, 365.
Resignation, how best promoted, 490.
Restoration, the doctrine of universal, how
it should be investigated, 132,
Resurrection, the New Jerusalem church's
notion of the, 121.

Revelation, its universal aspect, 86; why
not actually universal, 88; the duty of
christians to diffuse it, 90.
Review, the Christian Obferver's, answer-
ed, '510, &c.; theological, wrong state-
ments of the, rectified, 539, &c.
RIDGELEY, Dr. his remarks on infused
grace, and the instrumentality of the
word, 260.

security against sin, 142; how it ap
pears in fixing an ultimate end of a
vioral system, 148; of grace, in the
choice of means, 151; a divine attri
bute, 291; proof of the doctrine, 294;
corollaries, from the proof, 499.
STAPFER, John Frederic, his demonstra-
tion of malum metaphysicum, or passive
power, 489.

Surelyshi, wherein it differs from media-
torship, 105.

SWEDENBORG, his notion of the last judg
ment, 113, 118, 120; his apocalypse
revealed, 116.

System, moral, how just notions of a, are
best ascertained, 423.
Systems, that of Socinus, 9; that of Ar-
minius, 10; that of the Reformed, 12.

Tendency, metaphysical, to failure, 36;
different kinds of, 499; physical, what,
ib; moral, what, ib.; metaphysical,
what, 500; hypothetical, what, 502;
absolute, what, ib.

Tendencies, hypothetical, their existence,
308.

Testimony, the whole of revelation, may
be considered as a, 387.
Thcology, scriptural, how we may be
assisted to form juster views of, 432,
TorLADY, Rev. Augustus, his controversy
with Wesley and Fletcher, 317; un-
guarded respecting the causation of
sin, 323; and of necessity, 544; mis-
represented by Mr. Fletcher, 351, 567;
his rash inference from predestination
to life, 371.

Vice, its nature best ascertained, 422.
Virtue, its nature how best ascertained,
422.
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Salvation, the means of, 61.
Sandemanians, their error exposed, 438.
SAURIN, a quotation from, on the divine
decrees, &c. 8; his abridgment of the
system of Socinus and his followers, 9;
his abridgment of the system of Ar-
minius, 10; his abridgment of the re-WATTS, Dr. his remarks on the origin of
formed doctrine, 12; his remark on
divine prescience and decrees animad-
verted on, 479.

Science, wherein it differs from decree and
prescience, 307; moral, advantages in
reference to, 417.

Sentiments, in what proportion valuable,
416.

SHIRLEY, the Hon. and Rev. Walter, a
circular letter by, 313.

Sin, its origin, 325. 331, 420; its nature,
326; its generation, according to Mr.
Fletcher, 325, 328; answered, 329,
&c.; not absolutely necessary, 339;
permission of, remarks on, 375; exist.
ence of, consistent with the perfections
of Deity, 421.

ROCINUS, the system of, by Saurin, 9.
Sovereignty, definition of the term, 25;
observations on, 26; of grace, in pro-
posing an ultimate (nd, 144; the only

evil, &c. 479.

WESLEY, Řev. John, his minutes of a
London conference, 319; vindicated
by Mr. Fletcher, 515; his remarkable
concessions, 319.

WHITBY, Dr. his discourse on the five
points examined, 156; his calvinistic
education, 157; his view of original
sin, 158.

Will, the, whether determined by grace,
263; objections to, answered, 266,
&c. determined by grace, not incon-
sistent with equity, 271, &c.

WINCHESTER, his arguments for universal
restoration, answered, 135.

WOLFIUS, Christian, his demonstration of
malum metaphysicum, or passive power,
489, &c.

ZE No, his remark on fate, 7.

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