Page. APOLOGY AGAINST THIRTY-ONE THEOLOGICAL ARTICLES, 1-79
10.-It cannot be proved from Scripture, that believers under the Old Testament, before the Ascension of Christ, were in Heaven
1 11.-It is a matter of doubt, whether believers under the Old Testament under
stood that the legal ceremonies were types of Christ and of his benefits.. 6 12.-Christ has died for all men and for every individual.....
9 13 & 14.-Original Sin will condemn no man.-In every nation, all infants who die without [having committed) actual sins, are saved
10 15.-If the Heathen, and those who are strangers to the true knowledge of God,
do those things which by the powers of nature they are enabled to do, God will not condemn them, but will reward these their works by a more
enlarged knowledge by which they may be brought to salvation ...... 14 16.—The works of the unregenerate can be pleasing to God, and are (according
to Borrius) the occasion, and (according to ARMINIUS) the impulsive cause, by which God will be moved to communicate to them his saving grace.
16 17.-God will not deny his grace to any one who does what is in him...... 19 18.--God undoubtedly converts, without the external preaching of the Gospel,
great numbers of persons to the saving knowledge of Christ, among those (ubi est] who have no outward preaching; and He effects such conversions either by the inward revelation of the Holy Spirit, or by the ministry of angels. (BORRIUS & ARMINIUS.).....
20 19.—Before his fall, Adam had not the power to believe, because there was no
necessity for faith ; God, therefore, could not require faith from him after the fall...
22 20.— It cannot possibly be proved from the Sacred Writings, that the angels are now confirmed in their estate......
25 21. (1.)—It is a new, heretical and Sabellian mode of speaking, nay it is blas
phemous, to say “ that the Son of God is avrodeov, (very God,)” for
the Father alone is very God, but not the Son and the Holy Spirit.... 29 22. (II.)— It is the summit of blasphemy to say, that God is freely good ... 33 23. (111.)— It frequently happens, that a creature who is not entirely hardened
in evil, is unwilling to perform an action because it is joined with sin ; unless when certain arguments and occasions are presented to him which act as incitements to its commission. [Administratio] The management of this presentation also is in the hand of the Providence of God, who presents these incitements that He may accomplish his own work by the act of the creature
35 24. (IV.)—The Righteousness of Christ is not imputed to us for Righteousness; but to believe (or the act of believing) justifies us
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