CHA P. III. I SECTION I. T is now Time that we fhould proceed to confider fome of their Tenets. I fay fome. For I defign to treat of what I ap prehend to be their mean ERRORS, in a different Manner, and more extensively than those which I take to be of leffer Moment, and that depend in fome wife, either more or lefs, immediately on thofe Errors which I am intended to confider in fuch different Manner. THOSE principal Tenets on which most of their other Errors hang, I take to be two, that is to fay, . THAT all Things neceffary for Chrif II. To fimply believe: Or in other THE Manner in which I mean to treat of thefe, is, to give (to the beft of my Judgement) the Evangelical Senfe of the Truths thus thus perverted into Errors. And as I proceed, to fhew, by Note, Digreffion, or other expedient Method, in what particular, and bow they are changed into Errors. THIS Manner I have chofen for two principal Reasons. f. BECAUSE I apprehend it to be more edifying and lefs puzzling to the Reader than the ordinary Manner in which Works of Controversy are carried on: And because alfo, that it cannot be fo ftiff, dry, and beavy, as the ufual Manner: For by the quick Returns of controverted Argument, the Ideas feem to moft Minds perplexed; few Readers having Judgment or Strength of Thought fufficient to digeft and arrange them properly: Whereas, in this Manner they occur to the Mind (and must of Courfe be fo arranged) in fucceffive and natural Order. And adly. Because likewife that by this Order, the Error and Refutation muft unavoidably appear in the fame Idea with the Truth. And therefore be, at the fame Time improving, pleafing, and convincing to the Reader. For if I can fupport by sufficient Proofs the Truths I affert, then of course it will appear that any Opinion, oppofite to, or different from it, is more or lefs erronecus, as fuch Opinion is, in its Nature, more or lefs oppofite to, or different from fuch fupported Truth. And every Proof that is made of the Truth is naturally a Refutation futation of the Error. In like Manner as if a Lye was told, when the Truth is proved the Lye ftands convicted. Every Circumftance that fupported the Truth was equally a Conviction of the Lye. And, upon this Adjustment, it naturally appears cw this Lye became fo, and in what Particular it was one. Therefore I hope, on the Confi deration of thefe Things, that the Reader will be reconciled to the Method I chose to ake. SECTION II. T ER-R ORCI. HAT all Things neceffary for Chriftians to do, hath been adually done for them by Chrift, and their Pardon then abfolutely fealed: PROOF that this is Moravian Doctrine. "ON the Crofs He (Chrift) made a "Confeffion for all the World, when he fayed, Father forgive them. And when "he cryed out 'tis finished, He gave ArSOLUTION to all. C. ZINZENDORF'S 16. Difc. Page 31. See alfo Page 120. “For tho' I once at Judgment Seat "Since I'm abfolv'd already here; [Here is an abfolute Acquitance, not conditional, and to prevent understanding it fo, another of thefe Teachers, in a Letter fent from Wales to the Society at the Tabernacle in London, and bound up with this Collection, fays, Page 3. of his Letter, speaking with Refpect to this Point]----“ That "is a free and unconditional Love" [and immediately after, in the fame Page, fays] "Death can have no Sting when He (Chrift) answered all the Demands of "the Law for you." [Cennick fays further to this Point, Page 11. of that Collection] "Be never more dismay'd From Guilt, Fear, Paffion, and the "Strefs, "Of all that might a Sinner prefs, "His Blood thy RANSOM paid." {If it was neceffary I might produce_from their Writings a hundred Proofs of this Error, but this is fufficient. Let us hear now the Opinion of others, who must be allowed to know their Doctrine well] "Those who are justified are actually so at "the Time of the Crucifixion of our Lord." Mr. TENNANT, Page 12. [this he fays in his Catalogue of Moravian Errors, which he collected from the Count's Conversations with him.] "Chrift has done all that was neceffary "Mankind." "neceffary for the abfolute Salvation of all Mers. WESLEYS' bert View of the Difference between them and the MORAVIAN BRETHREN. Page 14. [and this with many other Errors thofe Gentlemen give as the Refult of inany fcrutinous Controverfies between them and the Chiefs of the Moravians. Upcn which Discovery they declared off from that Sect, as already fpoken of. I affure the Reader to have heard Moravian Preachers feveral Times affert from the Pulpit a Doctrine equal to this.I believe further Proofs are needlefs, though we might offer many.] PROOF that this Antinomian Doctrine. "ALL the Weight, and all the Burden, and all that very Sin itself, is long agone "laid upon Chrift; and that laying it upon him is a full Discharge, and a general 66 Releafe and Acquitance unto thee; that "there is not any one Sin now to be "charged upon thee." Dr. CRISP, Page 298. See Page 281. 285. See alfo Hornius, Page 601. And the Short Story, &c. in feveral Places. TRUTH. THE greatest Good that Man was capable of receiving accrued to him from the invaluable Effects of the Death and Paffion of Chrift; and the Merits of that Death and Paffion. To the taking a brief View whereof, we must confider I THE |