CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. ON SALVATION, REDEMPTION, ETC. 1. Promises of Salvation, and being saved, 9 2. Of Redemption by Christ, 13 3. Of Justification, Pardon, and Reconciliation, 16 4. Of Adoption as Children, and Heirs of eternal Life, 20 5. Being taught of God, and coming to a Knowledge of his Truth, 21 6. Of being blessed in God, 23 7. Of being healed of Sin as of a Disease, - 23 8. Of being cleansed and purified from all moral Pollution, 25 CHAPTER II. OBJECTIONS OBVIATED BY SCRIPTURE PROMISES. 1. All will not come to God, 27 2. We must repent and be born again, 29 3. This is a probationary state. There is no change after death, 36 4. The wicked will be exposed to the anger of God world without end, 38 5. God will not always be merciful as he now is, 39 CHAPTER III. MISCELLANEOUS PROMISES TO ALL PEOPLE, WITH. OUT LIMITS OR CONDITIONS. ous truths, that Death, the Devil, Sin, and CHAPTER IV. ions of the apostle Peter, and of St. John The comments of Dr. Clarke and CHAPTER V, ology; to which is added several addi- 53-59 ever. CHAPTER VI, In which is contained the views of the Rev. John Wesley, upon the commands of God. Mr. Wesley, in a sermon upon Heb. 6:1, endeavors to prove that the commands are, in all cases, equivalent to promises ; and that God will work in us to do whatever he has required of us. To suppose the contrary, he considers the same as to accuse our heavenly Father of solemn mockery, calling upon his helpless creatures to perform what he never pur- 96 God will not miss of his own Design, - 79 The Creation shall be delivered, 80 All Flesh shall see the Salvation of God, The boundless Compassion of God, - 83 Universal Righteousness, 84 Universal Deliverance from the empire of Sin, 85 A happy Conclusion, 87 It is as easy for God to convert a world as one individual soul, 89 An universal Remedy for an universal Evil, 92 The extent of God's Grace, 93 Unbelief a Sin, 94 Regeneration a work of Omnipotence, 95 God can never forget what he has once promised, CHAPTER IX, the doctrine of eternal punishment, and CHAPTER X, Containing an answer to the questions “Who hath believed our report?” What great men have received and advocated it? Who among our collegiate doctors have espoused and preached, or written in its defence ? and, Who has ever heard of the doctrine of Universalism till within a few short years? How, then, can it be considered as the truth of God? 107—125 BOOK OF PROMISES. CHAPTER I. SALVATION, AND BEING SAVED. Isa. 52:10. The Lord hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. Luke 3:5, 6. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places shall be made smooth; and all flesh shall see the salvation of God. Isa. 45:17. Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation : ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end. |