iv -to comfort, establish, and edify experienced Christians in the truth-and to promote practical piety and godliness. JEDEDIAH CHAPMAN, Minister of the Gospel at Geneva, State of New-York. Extract from a review of Dr. BELLAMY'S "True Religion De lineated," in the London Evangelical Magazine. "The value of Dr. BELLAMY's writings is already well known to the religious world: but we are obliged to the Rev. AN DREW FULLER for his history and recommendation of this work: which, we hope, will introduce it to those persons who are yet unacquainted with it. The Author's leading object is, to discriminate between the Law and the Gospel : and to define and illustrate the duties which they respectively require. We hope that the circulation of this volume will be as extensive as its contents are interesting and important; and that STUDENTS of DIVINITY especially, will avail themselves of the information. which it contains." Page 9 Mr. Benedict's Sermon delivered at the Funeral of Mr. Bellamy, So delight in him, as to live upon him as the portion of our souls. Love to God takes its rise, originally from a sense of his infinite glory and The infinite glory and amiableness of God lays us under such an obligation to love God, as is binding, antecedently to any selfish consideration. Much more inexcusable are those who enjoy the benefit of divine revelation. 170 God is under no natural obligations to grant supernatural advantages to any From any love whatsoever, that arises merely from self-love. ib. Page And from the love which enthusiasts and heretics have to one another. 191 -Love to God and our neighbour is a radical conformity to the whole law, 192 But if the idea, which the Pelagians and Arminians have of God and the law, is right, sin can deserve no punishment, in this world or the next. Various questions occasionally considered in the first discourse. Is it any matter what men's principles are, if their lives are but good? 56 has no taste for moral beauty ? 57 Does all our enmity against God arise merely from our conceiving him to 58 Are all things right, or wrong, merely because GOD wills them so to be? Or merely because they do or do not tend to make us happy? How was it consistent with God's goodness to permit sin ? Does perfect obedience deserve any thanks at the hands of God? What is it that brings awakened sinners to take all the blame to themselves, Page Do true believers feel themselves wholly to blame for not being perfectly holy? 160 Does God's withholding the sanctifying influences of his Holy Spirit lessen Is it natural or contracted? 202 Why are sinners so averse to the true knowledge of God, and so blind to his What good does it do for sinners to use the means of grace ? 225, 423 What is the shortest and easiest method to bring the main controversies be- tween Arminians and Calvinists to a final issue? 240, 254 Is it a sin for believers ever to doubt of their good estate? What is the most fundamental difference between the Arminians and Cal- In what sense are wicked men ignorant of their own hearts? Why does a sight of the strictness of the law discourage hypocrites, and kill But entirely from his own self-moving goodness, free and sovereign grace. 330 -The necessity of satisfaction for sin argued from the perfections of God, 339 -The everlasting life promised to believers, implies the everlasting love and favour of God, and the everlasting indwelling of the Holy Spirit as a The Gospel-way of salvation perfectly adapted to make men holy. 460-61 Various questions occasionally considered in the second discourse. What was implied in the death threatened to Adam ? 301 What is the difference between the law of nature and the first covenant ? 304, 320, 458 What is it that does most commonly convince men of the doctrine of origin- 313 Why is original sin no oftener spoken of in scripture ? 220, 314 Were we by the fall brought into a state of being worse than not to be? Does it render sin a less evil, or take away its natural ill desert ? 377 Does it move the divine compassion ? 378 Are the elect, before faith, as much under the wrath of God as others, not- withstanding the satisfaction of Christ ? 124, 378 Wherein consists our need of CHRIST, and when is it seen ? 355--57 Why was Adam placed in a state of probation ? 359 Is a state of probation consistent with God's making his creatures' happiness 362 Are all the comman mercies, which mankind enjoy, the effects of CHRIST'S 390 In what sense did CHRIST die for all the world? ib. And in what sense only for the elect ? 391 Is a confirmed habit of grace before the first act of faith, or after? 449 Does faith consist in believing that my sins are forgiven ? 125, 378, 444 |