THE WORKS OF THE REV. JOHN FLETCHER, LATE VICAR OF MADELEY. IN SEVEN VOLUMES VOL II. LONDON: PRINTED FOR JOHN KERSHAW, 14, CITY-ROAD, 66, PATERNOSTER-ROW 1826. CONTENTS OF VOLUME 11. LET. IV. Flavel and other Puritan Writers con- V. The Minutes and St, James's " pure Religion" established on Mr. Hill's VI. The doctrine, of Finished Salvation and Imputed Righteousness over- VII. Mr. Hill's arguments answered. VIII. Good Works not termed "Filthy IX. Mr. Rowland Hill answered.. X. Messrs. Richard and Rowland Hill's XIII. The present state of the controversy 157 POSTSCRIPT. The Author's Reasons for making a An Answer to Mr. Richard Hill's Finishing Stroke 181 Remarks on the Creed of an Antinomian.... APPENDIX: The Remaining Difference between 204 I. Sincere Obedience defended....... II. The Evangelical Law of Liberty..... PREFACE. The design of the work, and the rea- I. An Historical Essay on the importance and harmony of the two gospel pre- cepts BELIEVE and OBEY, and the fatal consequences of parting them.. 325 II. A Discourse preached at Madeley, April 18 and May 9, 1773, on the two Covenants, that of Works, and that of III. A Scriptural Essay, on the Rewarda- bleness of the Works of true Faith, according to the Covenant of Grace.. 419 IV. An Essay on Truth: Or a rational Vindication of the doctrine of Salva- tion by Faith; displaying the Nature and saving Power of religious Truth, when cordially embraced by Faith, and the various sorts and degrees FOURTH CHECK TO ANTINOMLANISM. LETTER IV. To Richard Hill, Esquire. HON. AND DEAR SIR, BEFORE 1 take my leave of the Puritan writers, you will permit me to make some observations upon the fault you find with my quoting one of them. Page 94, you introduce a judicious, worthy, reverend friend, charging me with having "most notoriously perverted the quotation" which I produced out of Flavel, (vol. i. page 356,) and you stamp with your approbation, his exclamation on the subject, "Could you have expected such disingenuity from Madeley?" Now, dear Sir, full of disingenuity as you suppose me to be, I can yet act with frankness. And to convince you of it, I publicly stand to my quotation, and charge your worthy friend with-what shall I call it ?— a gross mistake. My quotation I had from that judicious Puritan divine, D. Williams, who, far from notoriously perverting the sense of the ministers that drew up Flavel's Preface, has weakened it by leaving out some excellent Anti-Crispian sentences. Permit me to punish your friend for his hasty charge, by laying the whole passage before my readers; reminding them, that only the sentences enclosed in crotchets, [ ] are quoted in the Vindication. |