An Antidote Against Arminianism

Or A Treatise to Enervate and Confute The Five Points Of it

Predestination Grounded upon Man's Foreseen Works -- Universal Redemption--Sufficient Grace in All--The Power of Man's Free-will in Conversion--and the Possibility of true Saints Falling away Totally and Finally.

by Christopher Ness

With Extracts from Dr. John Gill, Dr. Isaac Watts, Augustus Toplady, John Newton, J. Hart, etc.

Recommended by Dr. John Owen, and for Public Good.

 Biographical Sketch of Christopher Ness

Author's Preface

Of Arminianism in General

CHAPTER I : OF PREDESTINATION

  • The Doctrine of Predestination. It's Properties: Eternal, Unchangeable, Absolute, Free, Discriminating, Extensive
  • The Ariminian's View of Predestination, as conditional upon a foresight of Faith, Works, Perserverance, etc. disproved, and twelve reasons assigned for rejecting it
  • Some principal Objections answered : Supra and Sub-lapsarianism, the difference between stated

    • CHAPTER II : OF UNIVERSAL REDEMPTION

  • The Arminian tenet, that Christ died for all men, proved to be erroneous, and ten reasons produced for its rejection
  • Objections produced by the Arminians against Particular Redemption answered : A few Texts of Scripture explained: 1 Tim. 2:4; John 3:16; 1 John 2:2; Romans 5:15; Romans 14:15; 2 Peter 2:1

    • CHAPTER III : OF FREE WILL AND CONVERSION

  • Man considered in four-fold state
  • Twelve Arguments to prove there is no Free-will to good in Man in his fallen estate
  • Objections illustrated: Acts 7:51; Matt. 23:37; Isaiah 5:4

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    CHAPTER IV : OF FINAL PRESEVERANCE
  • The Doctrine stated: Negatively, what Saving Grace is not; Positively, what Saving Grace is
  • Twelve Reasons assigned why the chosen of God cannot totally and finally fall away from that Grace
  • Perseverance computed at six hundred.Twelve of them selected as a sample
  • Objections answered, Texts opened: 1 Tim. 1:19; Hebrews 6:5