The Old and the New Man

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Excerpt from The Old and the New Man: Or, Sin and Salvation The Bible is complete, and no truth therein contained can be changed, modified, or annulled. All naturalists, geologists, astronomers, and philosophers should conform their theories to the teachings of the Bible. There is nothing in nature which, in any way, antagonizes the Bible. Profound convictions of the truth of the gospel, and an earnest desire to suppress the rising tide of heresies, and to contribute to the dissemination and maintenance of sound doctrine, have prompted in the writing of this book. The author claims that in all its doctrines and utterances this book is evangelical, Arminian, Methodistic, and scriptural. The following is the doctrine peculiar to the Calvinistic system: That God, by an absolute decree, elected to salvation a definite number of men, without any regard to their faith and obedience, and by the same decree excluded from saving grace, and reprobated to eternal damnation, all the rest of mankind, and that without regard to their impenitence and unbelief, that Jesus Christ did not make satisfaction for the sins of the whole race, but suffered death for the elect only, that God has, by his eternal and secret decree, foreordained whatsoever comes to pass, and put an unavoidable necessity on men to do, or not to do, whatsoever they do or do not, whether it be good or evil, that to the elect God gives grace, and they cannot reject it, and that to the reprobate he offers no grace, and they cannot accept it, that such as have received grace by faith can never fall from it finally or totally, notwithstanding the most enormous sins they can commit. This Calvinistic doctrine is unhesitatingly and most emphatically rejected in these pages as unreasonable, and as unscriptural. To bind a man in eternal fate, and doom him without any reference to his moral character or conduct, is to reduce him to the level of a machine, and punish him without his incurring penalty. To redeem some and reprobate others, without any reference to moral conduct, is to act without a reason, to force grace upon some and withhold it from others is partiality. God does not act without a reason, and he is no respecter of persons. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.