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an antidote against arminianism
by Christopher Ness
An easy to read, but
totally devasting attack against the heresy of Arminianism.
Recommended reading by John Owen, John Gill, and Augustus Toplady.
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Biographical
Sketch of Christopher Ness
Author's
Preface
Of
Arminianism in General CHAPTER I OF
PREDESTINATION
The
Doctrine of Predestination
It's Properties:
The
Ariminian's View of Predestination, as conditional upon a foresight of Faith, Works,
Perserverance, etc. disproved, and twelve reasons assigned for rejecting it.
Some
principal Objections answered.
Supra
and Sub-lapsarianism, the difference between stated.
CHAPTER II OF UNIVERSAL
REDEMPTION
The Arminian tenet, that Christ died for all men, proved to
be erroneous, and ten reasons produced for its rejection.
Objections
produced by the Arminians against Particular Redemption answered.
A few Texts of Scripture explained:
Romans
5:15, Romans 14:15, 2 Peter 2:1
CHAPTER III OF FREE WILL
AND CONVERSION
Man considered in four-fold state, twelve Arguments to prove
there is no Free-will to good in Man in his fallen estate.
Objections illustrated:
Acts 7:51, Matt. 23:37, Isaiah 5:4
CHAPTER IV OF FINAL
PRESEVERANCE
The
Doctrine stated: Negatively, what Saving Grace is not.
Positively,
what Saving Grace is.
Twelve
Reasons assigned why the chosen of God cannot totally and finally fall away from that
Grace.
Perseverance
computed at six hundred. Twelve of them selected as a sample.
Objections answered.
Texts opened:
I Tim. 1:19, Hebrews 6:5
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