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OF A

TREATISE,

Entitled

THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST

WORTHY

OF ALL ACCEPTATION;

CONTAINING

A REPLY TO MR. BUTTON's REMARKS,

AND THE

OBSERVATIONS OF PHILANTHROPOS.

BY ANDREW FULLER.

TO WHICH IS ADDED, AN ADDRESS TO

CANDIDATES FOR THE MINISTRY.

[Selected from Smith's Lectures on the Nature and End of the Sacred Office.]

While

ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light.
Jesus Christ.
By grace are ye saved, through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God

Paul.

PHILADELPHIA:

PRINTED FOR, AND PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM W. WOODWARD.

Corner of Second and Chesnut Streets.

1810.
Dickinson, Printer.

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II. Whether moral inability is or is not excusable
On our being born in sin

On our moral inability being insuperable

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On grace being provided to deliver men from it
III. Whether faith is required by the moral law
IV. Whether an obligation upon all those to whom the
gospel is preached to believe in Christ, and the en-
couragements held out to them so to do, is inconsist
ent with a limitation of design in his death

This sub-divided into four lesser sections.

§ 1. Our Lord Jesus Christ had an absolute determina-

tion in his death to save some of the human race

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PREFACE.

THE prevalence of truth and righteousness is doubtless an object of great importance; nor is the former any less necessary to the latter, than both are to the welfare of mankind. If controversy is of any use, it is because it tends to bring truth to light. It too often unhappily falls out, however, that the parties themselves are not the first who are convinced by each others reasonings; but on the contrary, are as far, and perhaps farther asunder, when they leave off, than when they began: this is not very difficult to be accounted for, though it is much to be lamented. Perhaps there are very few controversies wherein there is not room for mutual concessions. The backward

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ness so generally discovered to this by writers, and the determination that too commonly appears on both sides to maintain at all events their own principles, have given much disgust to many readers, and made them almost ready to despair of edification by reading controversy.

But though it must be granted that such conduct affords a just ground of disgust towards a writer, yet there is not the same reason for being digusted with controversial writing. Whatever be the prejudices of the parties, and their rigid adherence to their own opinions; if a controversy is carried on with any good

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