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ON THE CAI4VINISTIC DOCTRINE OF PARTICULAR ELECTION.
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and practice of him from whom they took mainly their origin and name . The following is a quotation from Dr . Rees ' s translation of the Racovian Catechism , p . 189 . ' But wherein consists the divine honour due to Christ ? In adoration likewise * ( as to God ) * and invocation . For we ought at all times to adore Christ , and may in our necessities address our pTa 7 Ers ~ to ^ him ^ as ^ often-as ^ we-p lease /——~ . —_—__—
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104 ON THE CALVINISTIC DOCTRINE
On The Cai4vinistic Doctrine Of Particular Election.
ON THE CAI 4 VINISTIC DOCTRINE OF PARTICULAR ELECTION .
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( Continued from page VS . " )
The modern doctrine of election , as well as that other point of Calvinism which is , in fact , only acorollary from it—the perseverance of the saints / seems to me directly contradicted by many passages of the epistles . For example , 2 Cor . vi . 1 , e We then as workers together with him , beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain . ' By the grace of Godi is here to w be . understood
a gratuitous admission to the privileges of the gospel covenant . But to what was it an admission ? Not surely to eternal life unconditionally , and without the possibility of final failure ; on the contrary , it is evident from these words of the apostle , that he considered the grace of God as a glltJ ^ aiBilghtbe ^ abused' and
forfeited . He considers it not as indicating a state of final and complete acceptance , but as the conferring of peculiar advantages , as a free gift on the part of God , of which the converts were to show themselves not unworthy by exerting themselves to work out their own salvation with fear and trembling . It was not a proof that the entire work was accomplished , and was now past the risk of defeat ; because then it would rather have been an
argument for sitting still , contented with what was already well done . On the contrary , he represents it as a motive to renewed and increased exertion . In proportion as they possessed new and increased and peculiar adyantages , in consequence of the blessing and favour of God , for acquiring a knowledge of his will and intentions concerning them , which they could never have learnt for
themselves , and which none of their philosophers , if they had been so disposed , could have taught them , it was expected that they should press forwards to secure the prize which was placed within their reach . It was not attained , but attainable ; and accordingly he exhorts them to run that theyjmig ^ t pbta ] n . In this passage , having referred to the prophetical language of Isaiah xlix . 8 , * In an acceptable time have I heard thee / he breaks out into the impressive appeal , * Behold now is the accepted time , now is the
day of salvation . The same general inference will serve to throw light on that remarkable passage , 2 Pet . i . 10 , * Wherefore the rather , brethren , give diligence , to make your calling and election sure . ' The writer
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 1, 1833, page 104, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2611/page/8/
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