I hope, honoured brethren, that these hints will so far preak the waves of prejudice which beat against your candour, as to prevail upon you not to reject this little means of information. If you condescend to peruse it, I trust it will minister to your edification, by enlarging your views of Christ's prophetic and kingly office; by heightening your ideas of that practical religion which the Scriptures perpetually enforce; by lessening your regard for some well-meant mistakes, on which good men have too hastily put the stamp of orthodoxy; and by giving you a more favourable opinion of the sentiments of your remonstrant brethren, who would rejoice to live at peace with you in the kingdom of grace, and walk in love with you to the kingdom of glory. But, whether you consent to give them the right hand of fellowship or not, nobody, I think, can be more glad to offer it you, than he, who, with undissembled respect, remains,

Honoured and dear brethren,

Your affectionate brother, and

obedient servant in Christ,

JOHN FLETCHER.

CONTENTS.

LETTER I.

TO RICHARD HILL, ESQ.

INTRODUCTION. The doctrine of justification by works

in the last day is truly scriptural. It is essentially

different from justification by faith in the day of con-

version. Mr. Hill fully grants, and yet warmly

opposes, such a justification.

II.

TO THE SAME.

Justification by the evidence of works, and St. James's

undefiled religion, are established upon the authority

of the liturgy, articles, and homilies of the Church

of England.

III.

TO THE SAME.

The sober puritan divines directly or indirectly maintain

the doctrine of justification by works in the great day,

which Dr. Owen himself, and numbers of other Calvin-

ist ministers, do not scruple calling "an evangelical

justification by our own personal obedience."

IV.

TO THE SAME.

Flavel, and many other puritan authors, were offended at

Dr. Crisp's doctrine. An important extract from

Flavel's "Treatise upon

Antinomianism.”

V.

TO THE SAME.

Mr. Wesley's Minutes, and St. James's pure religion, are

established on Mr. Hill's important concession, that

"we shall be justified by the evidence of works in the

great day."

LETTER VI.

TO RICHARD HILL, ESQ.

If we shall be justified by the evidence of works in the last day, there is an end of Dr. Crisp's "finished salvation," and Calvin's "imputed righteousness :" those two main pillars of antinomianism and Calvinism are fairly broken.

VII.

TO THE SAME.

Mr. Hill's arguments in defence of Dr. Crisp's "finished salvation are answered.

"

VIII.

TO THE SAME.

Mr. Hill is mistaken when he says, "We have scripture authority to call good works dung, dross, and filthy rags."

IX.

TO MR. ROWLAND HILL.

An answer to Mr. Rowland Hill's arguments against justification by works in the day of judgment, closed by some some strictures upon the friendliness of his "Friendly Remarks."

X.

TO THE SAME AND TO RICHARD HILL, ESQ.

An answer to Mr. Richard and Mr. Rowland Hill's remarks upon the "third Check," in which the scriptural doctrine of justification, in its several branches, is vindicated from their witticisms, and Mr. Hill cut off from some of his subterfuges.

XI.

TO BOTH THE SAME.

The doctrine of a believer's justification by works is reconciled with the doctrine of a sinner's justification

:

by grace and it is proved, that Calvinism makes

way for barefaced antinomianism, absolutely destroys

the law of Christ, and casts his royal crown to the

ground.

LETTER XII.

TO RICHARD HILL, ESQ.

In which the author shows how far the Calvinists and

the remonstrants agree, wherein they disagree, and

what makes the latter dissent from the former

concerning the famous doctrine of imputed righte-

ousness.

XIII.

TO THE SAME.

Containing a view of the present state of the controversy,

especially with regard to free will; and a conclusion,

descriptive of the loving apostolic method of carrying

on controversy;-expressive of brotherly love and

respect for all pious Calvinists;-and declarative of

a desire to live with them upon peaceable and friendly

terms.

POSTSCRIPT.

Containing an account of the reasons which engage us
to make at last a firm stand against our pious oppo-
nents; and of the hope we entertain, that in so doing
our labour will not be in vain in the Lord.

LOGICA GENEVENSIS;

OR,

A FOURTH CHECK TO ANTINOMIANISM,

&c.

LETTER I.

TO RICHARD HILL, ESQ.

HONOURED AND DEAR SIR,

My entering the field of controversy, to defend St. James's pure religion procured me your five letters, which I compare to a shower of rain gently descending from the placid heaven. But the six which have followed resemble a storm of hail, pouring down from the lowering sky, ushered by some harmless flashes of lightning, and accompanied by the rumbling of distant thunder. If my comparison is just, it is no wonder that when I read them first, I was almost thunderstruck, and began to fear, lest, instead of adding light, I had only added heat, to the hasty zeal which I endeavoured to check.

But, at the second perusal, my drooping hopes revive; the disburdened clouds begin to break; the air, discharged of the exhalations which rendered it sultry and hazy, seems cooler and clearer than before; and the smiling plains of evangelical truth, viewed through that defecated medium, appear more gay after the unexpected storm. Methinks even moderation, the phoenix consumed by our polemic fires, is going to rise out of its ashes; and that, notwithstanding the din of a contro"the voice of the turtle is" still "heard in

versial war,

our land."