Examination of Antinomianism, Title page – Table of contents
AN EXAMINATION Of the chief Points of ANTINOMIANISM, Collected out of ſome LECTVRES lately Preached in the Church of Antholines Pariſh, LONDON: And now drawn together into a Body, and publiſhed for the Benefit of all that love the holy Truth of God, By Thomas Bedford B. D.
Ʋnto which is annexed, An Examination of a Pamphlet lately publiſhed, Intituled The Compaſsionate Samaritan, Handling the Power of the Magiſtrate in the compulſion of Conſcience: By the ſame Author.
2 TIM. 1. 9.
The Law is for the lawleſs—
2 PET. 2. 1.
There ſhall be falſe Teachers, who privily ſhall bring in damnable Hereſies—And many ſhall follow their laſcivious ways, by reaſon of whom the way of Truth ſhall be evil ſpoken of—
LONDON: Printed by John Field for Philemon Stephens, and are to be ſold at his Shop at the ſign of the gilded Lyon in Pauls Church-yard. 1647.
To the Worſhipful and much Honored, Mr. John Turner of Hamme in the County of SURREY, Eſq A Sincere Lover of the Truth, and an earneſt Contender for the Faith which was once delivered to the SAINTS.
T. B. In teſtimony of Love and Thankfulneſs, Dedicates the life of this his weak and unworthy Labor; Together with the Apprecation of much Health and Happineſs.
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O…ober …, 1646.
I Have to my full ſatisfaction peruſed this excellent Diſſertation and Diſcuſsion of the chief Antinomian Tenents, and finde it to be ſo ſolid and judicious, pious, profitable and ſeaſonable in our diſtracted Times, and finally ſo adorned and ſweetned with modeſty, gaullaſs ſobriely and Chriſtian charity that I alow it and approve it well worthy the Printing and Publiſhing; not doubting but that it will be very effectual to ſtabliſh all in the Truth who have already embraced it, and to convince (if not perſwade) all thoſe who in ſimplicity and through meer error of their judgement are contrary minded.
JOHN DOWNAM….
THE TABLE.
| THe Introduction, | Page 1. |
| Chap. 1. Touching the Law of Moſes, Whether altogether aboliſhed, ſo that it is of no uſe to the Believer now in the time of the Goſpel: Alſo whether it do not binde Believers to the Duties of Holineſs as well now as it did in the time of the Old Teſtament, | 9. |
| Chap. 2. Touching the Motives of the Law, Whether theſe alſo be aboliſhed; So that to propoſe the expectation of reward, as an invitation to good Works, and to deter men from ſin by the fear of puniſhment, be altogether inconſiſtent with the Doctrine of Grace, | 18. |
| Chap. 3. A brief Anſwer to the Arguments of N. D. by him brought to prove Iuſtification before Faith, i. e. before the act of Believing, | 25. |
| Chap. 4. That juſtification is not tranſacted all at once, nor any pre-remiſſion of ſin before it be committed, | 33. |
| Chap. 5. The way of ſeeking reſolution touching our Adoption and Iuſtification by ſigns and marks, viz. The fruits of Sanctification, whether it be altogether unſatisfactory, | 41. |
| Chap. 6. Touching ſin in the Conſcience of the Believer; The Doctrine of the Antinomians in this Point examined and found inſufficient to ſatisfie the Conſcience: The right way of ſatisfying the Conſcience, and of taking away the ſcruple of ſin, ſet down, | 58. |
| The Arguments of the Compaſsionate Samaritan, touching the Power of the Magiſtrate in the compulſion of Conſcience, Examined, | 73. |