The Works of the Reverend John Fletcher
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781150524783
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 Excerpt: ...since the doctrine of finished salvation pours in upon us like a flood; since good men do not scruple to tell the world that the salvation of a bloody adulterer, -- flagrante delicto, is finished, and that he is a pleasant child of God, fully accepted and completely justified, what huve good works to do with salvation? Wc may not only dispense with them, but do the most horrid works. Yea, "the wheel" of" adultery, treachery, and murder, may "run round and round again," for ten months, without interrupting the finished salvation of the elect; any more than praying, weeping, and reforming for ten years will prevent the finished damnation of the reprobates. But, lest you should say I "blind the eyes of the readers with deceitful dust," I meet you on the solid ground where St. James stood, when he opposed the primitive Antinomians; and, taking that holy apostle's Gospel trump, I sound an alarm in Laodicea, and cry out to the drowsy world of Nicolaitan professors, whether they hear the word at the Lock chapel, or at the Foundery, "Awake, ye that sleep, and arise from the dead. Show your faith by your works. Know ye not, 0 vain men, that faith without works is dead," that it is a putrefying, illnelling corpse 1 Help, ye men of God, help us to bury it out of the way of good works. Let frighted morality dig a grave; let indignant piety cast the horrid nuisance into it. And, while we commit it to hell, whence it came, while the devils who believe feed upon the noisome carcass, let Bishop Cowper himself, attended by the author of PieUu Oxoniensis, say over the grave, "Justifying faith, whereby we are saved, cannot be without good works. Dead and damnable is the faith which is consistent with adultery and mur...
| ISBN-13 | 9781150524783 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1150524782 |
| Weight | 1.73 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.20 In |
| List Price | $37.67 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 538 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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