Checks to antinomianism Author:John Fletcher Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: final and decisive ;" and you add, " So long as we continue it the flesh, we are doubtless in a probationary state. Even after Cornelius had been endued with the... more » Holy Ghost, had he wilfully done despite to tho Spirit of grace, he might have" [not only displeated God, which is all Mr. Wesley asserts in this proposition, but] " fallen as deep into per dition as ever Judas did." I know one, sir, who was burned as " a dreadful heretic.." that did not go farther in this heresy than you do. And that is good Bishop Latimer, my second witness. He not only affirmed that " Christ shed as much blood for Judas as he did for Peter," but roundly asserted, " We may one time be in the book, and another out; as it appearcth bv David, who was written in the book of life; but when he sinned with a high hand, [which, by the by, we may do every moment,] he, at the same time, was out of the favour of God, until he had repented ; out of Christ, who h the book in which all believers are written." (Latimer't Sermon on the Third Sunday after Epiphany.) Thus, sir, have I looked out for "theheresy," the dreadful heresy, of Mr. Wesley's Minutes, by bringing all the propositions they contain to the touchstone of Scripture and common sense ; but, instead of finding it, I have found the very marrow of the Gospel of Christ, so far as it is opposed to Dr. Crisp's Antinomian Gospel; which at this time would overflow our little Sion, if God did not sit above the water floods, and say to the proudest billows of error, " Hitherto shall ye come, and no farther." I have showed that the Minutes contain nothing but what is truly Scriptural, and nothing but what the best Calvinist divines have themselves directly or indirectly asserted; except perhaps the sixth proposition concerning (lie merit of works; and with res...« less