(3) BARRY ON ELECTION. REVISED By the Rev. WILLIAM HUNTINGTON, S. S. LATE MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL, AT PROVIDENCE CHAPEL, GRAY'S INN LANE. NOTWITHSTANDING, IN THIS REJOICE NOT, THAT THE SPIRITS ARE SUBJECT UNTO YOU: BUT RATHER REJOICE BECAUSE YOUR NAMES ARE WRITTEN IN HEAVEN. LUKE X. 20. THIRD EDITION. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY E. HUNTINGTON, 55, HIGH STREET, BLOOMSBURY. I. That the abovesaid doctrine, rightly understood and believed, with application to one's self, is the great enemy of sin, both in the heart and life of a true Believer; and that which keeps the Believer from despair, in the deepest desertion and temptation. II. That the doctrine of free-will and general redemption, &c. is an inlet to, and an encourager of sin; and which leads in the end to horrid despair. FOR THERE SHALL ARISE FALSE CHRISTS, AND FALSE PROPHETS, AND DECEIVE WHEREFORE THE RATHER, BRETHREN, GIVE YOUR CALLING AND ELECTION SURE. DILIGENCE ТО NAKE 2 PET. I. 10. BY JAMES BARRY. TO THE IMPARTIAL READER. COURTEOUS READER, I AM to inform thee, that in the time of the Popish government, when Popery and Quakerism smiled so amicably on each other, as the two religions, if I might so call them, which are nearest of kin of all the religions visibly professed in these kingdoms, the people called Quakers sent me a thrasonical challenge in writing, (which was afterwards published in print), to prove, from the scriptures of truth, the four doctrines here following: 1. The doctrine of the resurrection of this fleshly body, which dies and turns to dust. 2. The doctrine of justification, by the alone righteousness of Jesus Christ, freely imputed. 3. The doctrine of imperfection in sanctification in the most mortified believer, while in this world. 4. The doctrine of particular unconditionate election before time. All which the Quakers do stiffly and peremptorily deny, as by their printed book against me doth evidently appear. Their challenge I was resolved to answer in print, to let the world see what heterodox and heretical principles that deluded and seduced people do hold and teach for true |