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AMBROSE on the seventh of Romans..

Anabaptists said to have been perfectionists.

Not a matter of concern to us..

Arminius, James, opposes the doctrines of Calvin.

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Page 313

197

199

128

242

266-269

132-134

302-317

73, 74

116

89, 90

Did not condemn the opinion that man might be without sin,
until after the council of Carthage....

96, 97

Sometimes denies, and at others admits, that men may live
without sin..........

Dupin's abstract of the views of, upon the subject..
Held to the phantom of mortal and venial sin..

On the seventh of Romans..

On Phil. iii, 12, 15...

Baptisms, doctrine of....

Barclay, Robert, on perfection....

Barnes, Rev. Albert, Commentary of, on Rom. vii..

Contradicts himself..

Basil the Great on the seventh of Romans.

Bates, Dr. William, on perfection in holiness.

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98

98, 99
98-100
314-317

391

8

87

292, 293

293-295

307-309

75-83

435, 436

319

Buck, Rev. Charles, denies the attainableness of perfection... 184
Burnet, Bishop, his exposition of fifteenth article of the Church
of England..

Calvin denies the attainableness of perfection.

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Decrees of, against the Pelagian doctrine of legal perfec-
tion....

322

393

94

94-96

324

438

197, 198

Cartwright says we must not pray to be freed from sin in this

life

Carvosso on joy....

Catharii, some account of.

Celestius.....

Chrysostom on the seventh of Romans...

Page 88, 92
306, 307

....

Church of England, fifteenth article of, on sinful imperfection..114

Clarke, Dr. A., his views of perfection....

Criticism on 1 Kings viii, 46, and Eccles. vii, 20..
Commentary upon Phil. iii, 12–14.

51-54
282,283

389-391

Clemens Alexandrinus on perfection..

68

Clement, St., on perfection in love...

67

Communion with God an evidence of entire sanctification.

441

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Cranmer, Archbishop, asserts that sin is destroyed by death... 112

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Dick, Dr., denies the attainableness of perfection.

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Disinterested benevolence, Professor Finney's views of... 190, 191

Dort, Synod of, condemned the Remonstrants..

128

442, 443

Did not condemn the doctrine of perfection...... 129, 131, 132

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Finney, Professor, his statement of the doctrine of entire sanc-
tification....

275-279

Flesh, sinful, what...

331-333

Fletcher, Rev. John, his statement of the doctrine of perfec-
tion....

48-51

Answers objections against the doctrine of perfection...151-160
Answers Mr. Toplady's objections....

162-173

Against the identity of regeneration and entire sanctification 350
Fox, John, the martyrologist, against Romish perfection.. 108-110

Gifts, extraordinary, not an evidence of entire sanctification... 438
Gomarus charges the Remonstrants with holding perfection... 129
Goodwin, John, on perfection..

Grace, life of..

Gradual, in what sense entire sanctification is.

Hands, laying on of....

83, 84

37
212

Harding, Dr. J., argument in favour of legal perfection, Page 103, 104

Hedding, Rev. Bishop, views of, on perfection..

60-64

Hodge, Professor, Commentary of, on Romans vii...

286-291

Holiness, being renewed in...

38

Hooker defines perfection...

25

On attempting an impossibility...

324

On interpreting Scripture language...

368

Hooper, John, the martyr, asserts the continuance of concu-
piscence in all through life..

112

Ignatius, St., on perfection in faith, love, and holiness....
Instantaneous, in what sense entire sanctification is.......

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Jansenists and Jesuits, controversy on perfection........ 125-127
Jerome, St., on the seventh of Romans..

313, 314

Jewell, Bishop, argument of, against the Romish doctrine of

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King Edward VI., prayer of, for a clean heart.

Knowledge, renewed in..

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Knox, Alexander, eulogy of, upon Mr. Wesley, and the doc-
trine of perfection............

209, 210

Law, the Oberlin divines charged with letting down the....

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Liturgy of the Church of England quoted by Mr. Fletcher in

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Luther asserts the necessary continuance of indwelling sin
through life...

111, 112

The law set aside as a condition of salvation..

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Macarius, concerning the return and triumph of sin after justifi-

Macknight, Dr., on the seventh of Romans..

31

68

68-70

317, 318

Mahan, President, his statement of Christian perfection. Page 174-177

On the grace exercised in our sanctification...

Maxwell, Lady, on joy

Melancthon against legal perfection.....

187, 188

438

115, 116

Difference between, and Mr. Wesley, on sin in believers 116, 117

On the law

Methodists, Mr. Knox's opinions of......

Not favourers of fanaticism.

Nordheimer, Dr., a rule in the Hebrew Grammar of, quoted.280,281
Norris, Mr., on the perfect love of God...
Novatians, some account of..

Oberlin divines, views of, on perfection........
Have met with two classes of opponents....
Difference between them and Methodists.
features of their theory of perfection....

Objections against the doctrine of perfection.

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84, 85
197, 198

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A series of, stated and answered by Mr. Fletcher................. 151–160
Another series of, stated and answered-

1. It is Pelagianism....

2. Identified with fanaticism

3. Opposed by the Reformers..

4. Human weakness forbids it

5. No examples......

194

197

200

201

203

6. The nearer we approach it the more distant it seems... 203

7. Hastens sanctification to too sudden a conclusion.... 204
8. Injurious to religion.

207

9. Disagrees with facts..

211

(1.) Against a growth in grace..

(2.) All are afflicted....

212

(3.) All are required to use the means of sanctification.. 213
(4.) None arrive at a perfect knowledge of the truth.... 215
(5.) All Christians have corruptible bodies...

10. Dishonours God's law, 220; Scripture testimony, 242;

1 Kings, viii, 46, and Eccles. vii, 20, 280; James iii,
2, 283, 284; 1 John, i, 8, 284, 285; Rom. vii, 285-301.

215

Against the necessary continuance of sin in believers until death 322
1. Makes it our misfortune, not our fault....

2. Nourishes spiritual sloth....

3. Gives too much credit to death...

4. Adds a qualification to the doctrine of sanctification con-

6. Supposes a connection between sin and the body wholly

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Ditto on Phil. iii, 14....
Pelagianism objected against perfection..

388, 389

194, 195

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