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 Delineated," 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. ANDREW FULLER for his history and recommendation of this work: whick, 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 Love to God implies right apprehensions of him, and a sense of his amia- That we esteem him, so as to exult in his supremacy. So value his honour and interest, as to be devoted to him, 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 From any love whatsoever, that arises merely from self-love. ib. -Love to God and our neighbour is a radical conformity to the whole law, 192 And lays the foundation for all true obedience, And is that whereby true religion is distinguished from all counterfeits. -From the whole, we may learn, what that image of GOD was, in which ib. -Conversion consists in our recovery from this sinful temper, to the moral And because we are naturally inclined to resist his influences with all our Therefore they must be such as we cannot resist, or we shall never be re- 230 Which effectual grace is dispensed according to God's sovereign good plea- 238 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. Are all things right, or wrong, merely because GOD wills them so to be? Does all our enmity against GoD arise merely from our conceiving him to Is it any matter what men's principles are, if their lives are but good? Will speculative ideas of God beget a sense of his amiableness, in a heart that' 80 82 92 99 100 Is sin an infinite evil? and does it deserve an infinite punishment? 105 107 110, 144, 256 Or wholly repealed? 115 What influence have false notions of the law on men's religion? 116 118 Can a man, merely from self-love, love God more than himself? - 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 Why does the scripture, in some places, speak of the external advantages of - 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- 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- - 260 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 Of the Trinity, and of the character each person sustains in the affair of our GOD does in the gospel consider us as in a perishing condition, -GOD was not moved to provide a Saviour for us, under any notion that But entirely from his own self-moving goodness, free and sovereign grace. -The necessity of satisfaction for sin argued from the perfections of GOD, 339 From scripture, GOD may now, through Christ, consistently with his own honour, save And use what means he pleases for the recovery of obstinate sinners. A view of the methods of divine grace with mankind, from the beginning of Which lays a foundation for a supernatural belief of the gospel. Regeneration, faith, repentance, and conversion, connected together. The various actings of faith distinguished. Faith and holiness always in proportion. 442-4 -The everlasting life promised to believers, implies the everlasting love Various questions occasionally considered in the second discourse. 460-61 What is the difference between the law of nature and the first covenant ? 301 304, 320, 453 What is it that does most commonly convince men of the doctrine of origin- Why is original sin no oftener spoken of in scripture ? 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- Wherein consists our need of CHRIST, and when is it seen? Is a state of probation consistent with God's making his creatures' happiness 359 362 Are all the common 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? 449 125, 378, 444 |