fhall confefs me before men, him will I alfo confefs -FORE MY FATHER who is in heaven. But whofoever fhall deny me before men, him will I alfo deny BEFORE. MY FATHER who is in heaven.--It was undoubtedly an attention to this fcripture, that made Dr. Owen Lay: "Hereby [by perfonal obedience that faith whereby we are juftified (as finners is evidenced, proved, manifefted IN THE SIGHT OF GOD and man. And yet, aftonishing! this Paffage which indirectly gives up the only real difference there is, be-. tween Mr. Hill's juftification by works, and ours; this paffage, which outs him off from the only way he has of making his, efcape (except that by which his brother tried to make his own, See 4th Check, p. 140) this very paffage, which makes fo much for my fentiment, is one of those concerning which he says, Finishing Stroke, p. 14. "Words. PRUDENTLY expunged by Mr. Fletcher," when they are only words, which for brevity's fake I very IMPRUDENTLY left out, fince they cut down folifidianism, even with Dr. Owen's (word.

To conclude: Attentive reader, perufe James ii. where the juftification of believers by works before God is fo ftrongly infifted upon: Obferve what is faid there of the law of liberty; of believers being judged by that law; of the judgment without, mercy, that shall be shewn to fallen, merciless believers according to that law :--Confider that this doctrine exactly coincides with the fermon upon the mount, and the epiftle to the Hebrews that it perfectly tallies with Ez. xviii.xxxiii. Mat. xii. xxv. Rom. ii. Gal. vi. &c. and that it is delivered to brethren, yea to the beloved brethren of St. James, to whom he could fay, Out of his own will the father of lights begat us with the word of truth :--Take notice that the charge indirectly brought against them, is, that they had the faith of our Lord Jefus Chrift with refpect of perfons; and that they deceived their own felves, by not being as careful doers as they were diligent hearers of the word: Then look round.

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upon fome of our most famous believers ; fee how foaming, how roaring, how terrible are the bil lows of their partiality. Read " An addrefs from candid proteftants to the rev. Mr. Fletcher" read "The Finishing Stroke; read More work for Mr. Wefley;" read the Checks to antinomianism; and fay if there is not as great need to infift upon a believer's juftification by words and works, as there was in the days of our Lord and St. James; and if it is not high time to say to modern believers: My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jefus Chrift with respect of perfons---So SPEAK ye, and fo DO, as they that fhall be judged by the law of liberty: for he fhall have judgment without mercy, that hath fhewed no mercy --for with what judgment ye judge, ye fhall be judged: and with what meafure ye mete, it fhall be meafured to you again by him, that fhall render to every one according to what he has done in the body, whether it be good or bad.------But, " candid proteftants" have an answer ready in their "ADDRESS" This is the popish doctrine of juftification by works," and Arminian Methodifm turned out rank Popery at laft."--This is a mingle mangle of "the Moft high and mighty, felf-righteous, felf-potent, felfimportant, felf-fanctifying, felf-juftifying, and felfexalting MEDLEY Minifter The misfortune is that amidst these witticifms of "the Proteftants". [for it feems, the Calvinifts engrofs that name to themselves] we rank Papifts," still look out for arguments; and when we find none, or only fuch as are worse than none, we still fay, Logica Genevenfis! and remain confirmed in our “dreadful herefy," or rather in our Lord's anti-Calvinistic doctrine By thy words thou shalt be JUSTIFIED, and by thy words thou shalt be CONDEMNED.

End of the First Part.

See the above mentioned "Addr:fs from Candid Proteftants.",

Logica Genevenfis continued.

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A Defence of "Jack o'lanthorn," and "the Paperkite," i. e. Sincere Obedience ;

of the Cobweb," i. e. The evangelical law of liberty;

-and of the "valiant Sergeant I. F. i. c. The conditionality of Perfeverance, attacked by the Rev. Mr. Berridge, M. A. Vicar of Everton, and late Fellow of Clare-hall, Cambridge, in his book called The Chriftian world unmafked.)

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The CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION.

Mr. Berridge's uncommon piety and zeal give an uncommon fanction to his dangerous, though wellmeant mistakes.

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Mr. Berridge advances the capital error of the antinomians, when he fays, that faith muft UTTERLY exclude ALL juftification by works, and when he reprefents the paffport of obedience as a paper-kite."

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A view of the doctrine of the Solifidians with refpect to the gospel-law, or the law of liberty, which Mr. B. indirectly calls a "cobweb;" and with refpect to fincere obedience, which he directly calls "a jack o'lanthorn"- -With two notes fhowing, that Mr. B. holds the doctrine of merit of congruity, as much as Thomas Aquinas, and that Bellarmine held abfolute reprobation, as much as Mr. Toplady.

An anfwer to the dangerous arguments of Mr. B. against fincere obedience, in which it is proved, that Chrift is not "at the head of the antinomian Preachers" for making our duty feafible as redeemed finners; and that Mr. B's. rafh pleas against obedience, as the condition of eternal fal vation,

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