The foreknowledge of events, prove also their foreappointment,.282, 283 If sin is of God's appointment, I will commit as much of it as I please,....... 283 No rational ground betwixt foreknowledge and foreordination,.. 285, 286 The foreappointment of ends implies also a foreappointment of means,. ..287, 288 I am a free agent, for I can do as I please,... 290 God controls us by the agency of our will, not against it,....... 294 Why is one a christian, and another not?........ 295 Why Why suffer we for sin if it is unavoidable ?.... 297 Facts prove that our advantages over others are not of our own making..... .. 298 Election does not necessarily imply reprobation,..............303, 304 It were partiality in God to pardon some who are as guilty as others whom he executes,. 309 Why are means necessary for bringing about a result which is unchangeably foreordained?.... 310 God is as accountable for what he permits, as for what he ordains, We cannot form an adequate conception of eternity,........... If even there be no punishment in eternity, men may be advan- ..... 312 315 319 326 332 INDEX TO THE SCRIPTURE TEXTS COMMENTED ON IN THIS WORK, WHICH ARE USUALLY URGED AGAINST THE UNIVERSALIAN FAIΤΗ. Prov. i. 26. I also will laugh at your calamity, etc............ Page. 54 ......110, 111 Jude, verse 7. Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them, in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire,...... .............114, 115 Rom. ix. 1-3. I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh,. ....115, 116 Rom. x. 1. Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Ezek. xviii. 4. The soul that sinneth, it shall die,............. 2 Cor. v. 10. For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ, that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad,... 116 135 ib. ib. 136 Matt. xix. 16. What good thing shall I do, that I may inherit eternal life,..... ..137-187 Matt. vii. 13. Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat,.. .....140, 141 Heb. xii. 14. Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord,.... 142 glory, etc., and all others pertaining to Christ's coming to judge Mal. iv. 1-6. Behold the day cometh that shall burn as an oven, etc.,. 162, 163 Matt. viii, 11, 12. Ye shall see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and ye yourselves shall be thrust out,... 165 Luke xvi. 19-31. The rich man and Lazarus,....167, 168, 184, 187 381 Page. Matt. xxv. 1-12. The ten virgins,....... 169 Matt. xxii. 11. And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding-garment,...... Matt. xiii. 24-30. The tares and wheat,. 186 170, 171 Matt. xiii. 47, 48. The net cast into the sea,. ib. Matt. xxv. 46. And these shall go away into everlasting punish ment: but the righteous into life eternal,.........174, 175, 186, 187 Matt. xxv. 45. The devil and his angels,.... ......180, 181 Matt. xi. 21, 22. Woe unto thee, Chorazin, etc. It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment than for thee...... .......202, 203 Acts xvii. 30, 31. Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness, etc.,..... ....204, 205 2 Pet. iii. 7-13. But the heavens and the earth which are now, are reserved unto fire against the day of judgment, etc.,....205-207 2 Thess. i. 6-10. Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; and to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day,...... ....207-211 Heb. ix. 27. It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment,.. 211-213 Rev. xx. 11-15. And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God: and the books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. (And its parallel text in Daniel,)....... ....213-217 Matt. xvi. 26. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?..... 218 Eccles. viii. 11. Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil,. 219 Dan. xii. 2. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt,...... .....221, 222 John v. 28, 29. Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in Page, the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation,..... .........223, 224 John viii. 21. Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come,... ...225, 226 Matt. xii. 31, 32. But whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come,... ..227, 228 Matt. xxvi. 24. But woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born. (And all the texts pertaining to Judas,).......229-231 John iii. 3. Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God,... 1 Cor. vi. 9, 10. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God,. 232 232-234 Gen. ii. 17. In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die,. Eccles. ix. 10. Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest,... Ps. ix. 17. The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God,... Deut. xxxii. 22. For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains,.... Mark ix. 43-48. If thy hand offend thee, cut it off; it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having too hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched; where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having too feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched; where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hellfire; where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched,....... 244 265 266 268 ..271-273 274 Matt. xxiii. 33. How can ye escape the damnation of hell?.... Mark ix. 43-48. And the fire is not quenched-never shall be quenched, etc.,....... ...274, 275 Luke xii. 4, 5. Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that, have no more that they can do: but fear him, which after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell,................276, 277 |
