QUESTION I . 103 divine nature, as the Athanasians, and the school-men maintain. That Jesus Christ is a mere man, and had no being before he Was conceived of the blessed virgin. That Christ did not make any proper satisfaction for the sins of men. That the soul sleeps with the body, and rises with it at the resurrection ; and after all, they atiknowledge that the light of nature is sufficient to direct men to eternal happiness, and that nothing is to he be- lieved in the sublimest pointsof religion, but what is to be un- derstood and judged of by put' reason, 6. Enthusiasts, on the other hand, believe that reason is of no use in things of religion. That human learning loth more hurt than good among chrístians. That there is no need at all of it for ministers of the gospel. That our own labour for our salvation signifies nothing, and therefore, they wait for sensible impressions of the Holy Spirit, to move them to the common duties of christianity. 7. The Pelpgians say, that there is no imputed or 'inherent original sin. That man after his fall, had a proper power and free will in himself to become truly pious, or grossly wicked; and to doeither good or evil. That men may obtain the favour of God by the merit of their o}vu good }works. 8. Arminian.s, or Remonstrants, generally hold, that there is no certain and absolute election or redemption of particular persons unto salvation, that there is no needof the almighty, sovereign, and efficacious influences of the Spirit, in order to conversion. That believers may fall and perish eternally ; and 1 that there is no certain perseverance of the saints, 9. The Antinomians hold, that all true believers were jus- tified from eternity. That an elect person is never chargeable with sin before God. That the moral law of -God is not of per- petual obligation to the consciences of believers. That sin can do a believer no real injury. 10. The strict Calvinists deny every single proposition, and peculiar sentiment, that I have here mentioned under all the foregoing heads, and call them all errors; and believe thr con- trary propositions to be divine truths delivered in the scrip- tures. I might here add a variety pf doctrines and sects, that have in former ages troubled and divided the church, viz. the Euty- chians, who supposed that the two, natures of Christ were so united and blended together, that the human was lost in thedi- vine. The Apollinarians, who taught that Christ brought his flesh from heaven, and that he had no human will, but only a divine will. The Donatists, who required the true church to be without sin or spot. The Origenists, who deny the eternal
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