A Defence of Particular Redemption Author:William Rushton Subtitle: Wherein the Doctrine of the Late Mr. Fuller Relative to the Atonement of Christ, Is Tried by the Word of God in Four Letters to a Baptist Minister : Accompanied by a Frontispiece of the Believer's Golden Chain - the Chain of Salvation General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1834 Original Publisher: J. Spencer... more » Subjects: Baptists Atonement Religion / General Religion / Sermons / Christian Religion / Christian Theology / General Religion / Christian Theology / Christology Religion / Christian Theology / Soteriology Religion / Christianity / Baptist Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST EDITION. I Think it right to inform the reader, that, some timo ago, I was accidentally engaged in a verbal controversy on the nature and extent of the atonement of Christ, with a Baptist minister of some celebrity, residing in Northamptonshire. At parting, he earnestly entreated me to read Mr. Fuller's "Dialogues, Letters, and Essays," which I promised to do. No sooner had I read and pondered that work, than the fallacy of Mr. Fuller's doctrine, which my friend had espoused, appeared to me in a more striking manner than it had ever done before; and I felt assured that, with a little labour, the spe- ciousness and deceitfulness of Mr. Fuller's views might be fully made manifest. With this conviction, I determined to attempt a refutation of them, and to publish it in the following Letters. It is more than possible that some weak andinconsiderate persons may feel offended at the free use I have made of Mr. Fuller's name, because, being now deceased, he cannot answer for himself. Although I have no fear of any objection of this nature from persons who are acquain...« less