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Vols. 1 & 2 by James Nichols, Vol. 3 by W. R. Bagnall  

A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF JAMES ARMINIUS 
ORATIONS OF ARMINIUS
 
ORATION 1: The Priesthood of Christ
ORATION 2: The Object of Theology
ORATION 3: The Author and the End of Theology
ORATION 4: The Certainty of Sacred Theology
ORATION 5: On Reconciling Religious Dissensions among Christians
    
A DECLARATION OF THE SENTIMENTS OF ARMINIUS
 
Introduction
I. ON PREDESTINATION
II. THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD
III. THE FREE-WILL OF MAN
IV. THE GRACE OF GOD
V. THE PERSEVERANCE OF THE SAINTS
VI. THE ASSURANCE OF SALVATION
VII. THE PERFECTION OF BELIEVERS IN THIS LIFE
VIII. THE DIVINITY OF THE SON OF GOD
IX. THE JUSTIFICATION OF MAN BEFORE GOD
X. THE REVISION OF THE DUTCH CONFESSION, AND THE HEIDELBERG CATECHISM
    
THE APOLOGY OR DEFENSE OF JAMES ARMINIUS 
NINE QUESTIONS
 
1. Which is first, Election, or Faith Truly Foreseen, so that God elected his people according to faith foreseen?
2. If it be said, "that God, by his eternal decree, has determined and governs all things and every thing, even the depraved wills of men, to appointed good ends," does it follow from this, that God is the author of sin?
3. Does original sin, of itself, render man obnoxious to eternal death, even without the addition of any actual sin? Or is the guilt of original sin taken away from all and every one by the benefits of Christ the Mediator?
4. Are the works of the unregenerate, which proceed from the powers of nature, so pleasing to God, as to induce Him on account of them to confer supernatural and saving grace on those who perform them?
5. Can God now, in his own right, require faith from fallen man in Christ, which he cannot have of himself? But does God bestow on all and every one, to whom the Gospel is preached, sufficient grace by which they may believe, if they will?
6. Is justifying faith the effect and the mere gift of God alone, who calls, illuminates, and reforms the will? and is it peculiar to the elect alone from all eternity?
7. May every one who is a true believer be assured in this life of his individual salvation; and is it his duty to have this assurance?
8. May true believers and elect persons entirely lose faith for a season?
9. Can believers under the grace of the New Covenant, perfectly observe the law of God in this life?
REMARKS ON THE PRECEDING QUESTIONS, AND ON THOSE OPPOSED TO THEM
    
PUBLIC DISPUTATIONS
 
Dedication
ON SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL SUBJECTS OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION
DISPUTATION 1: ON THE AUTHORITY AND CERTAINTY OF THE SACRED SCRIPTURES
DISPUTATION 2: ON THE SUFFICIENCY AND PERFECTION OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES IN OPPOSITION TO TRADITIONS
DISPUTATION 3: ON THE SUFFICIENCY AND PERFECTION OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES IN OPPOSITION TO HUMAN TRADITIONS
DISPUTATION 4: ON THE NATURE OF GOD
DISPUTATION 5: ON THE PERSON OF THE FATHER AND THE SON
DISPUTATION 6: ON THE HOLY SPIRIT
DISPUTATION 7: ON THE FIRST SIN OF THE FIRST MAN
DISPUTATION 8: ON ACTUAL SINS
DISPUTATION 9: ON THE RIGHTEOUSNESS AND EFFICACY OF THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD CONCERNING EVIL
DISPUTATION 10: ON THE RIGHTEOUSNESS AND EFFICACY OF THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD CONCERNING EVIL
DISPUTATION 11: ON THE FREE WILL OF MAN AND ITS POWERS
DISPUTATION 12: THE LAW OF GOD
DISPUTATION 13: ON THE COMPARISON OF THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL
DISPUTATION 14: ON THE OFFICES OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST
DISPUTATION 15: ON DIVINE PREDESTINATION
DISPUTATION 16: ON THE VOCATION OF MEN TO SALVATION
DISPUTATION 17: ON REPENTANCE
DISPUTATION 18: ON THE CHURCH AND ITS HEAD
DISPUTATION 19: ON THE JUSTIFICATION OF MAN BEFORE GOD
DISPUTATION 20: ON CHRISTIAN LIBERTY
DISPUTATION 21: ON THE ROMAN PONTIFF, AND THE PRINCIPAL TITLES WHICH ARE ATTRIBUTED TO HIM
DISPUTATION 22: THE CASE OF ALL THE PROTESTANT OR REFORMED CHURCHES, WITH RESPECT TO THEIR ALLEGED SECESSION
DISPUTATION 23: ON IDOLATRY
DISPUTATION 24: ON THE INVOCATION OF SAINTS
DISPUTATION 25: ON MAGISTRACY
    

PRIVATE DISPUTATIONS
 
DISPUTATION 1: ON THEOLOGY
DISPUTATION 2: ON THE MANNER IN WHICH THEOLOGY MUST BE TAUGHT
DISPUTATION 3: ON BLESSEDNESS, THE END OF THEOLOGY
DISPUTATION 4: ON RELIGION
DISPUTATION 5: ON THE RULE OF RELIGION, THE WORD OF GOD, AND THE SCRIPTURES IN PARTICULAR
DISPUTATION 6: ON THE AUTHORITY AND CERTAINTY OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES
DISPUTATION 7: ON THE PERFECTION OF THE SCRIPTURES
DISPUTATION 8: ON THE PERSPICUITY OF THE SCRIPTURES
DISPUTATION 9: ON THE MEANINGS AND INTERPRETATION OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES
DISPUTATION 10: ON THE EFFICACY OF THE SCRIPTURES
DISPUTATION 11: ON RELIGION IN A STRICTER SENSE
DISPUTATION 12: ON THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, ITS NAME AND RELATION
DISPUTATION 13: ON THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, WITH REGARD TO THE MATTER GENERALLY
DISPUTATION 14: ON THE OBJECT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION: AND, FIRST, ABOUT GOD, ITS PRIMARY OBJECT, AND WHAT GOD IS
DISPUTATION 15: ON THE NATURE OF GOD
DISPUTATION 16: ON THE LIFE OF GOD
DISPUTATION 17: ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF GOD
DISPUTATION 18: ON THE WILL OF GOD
DISPUTATION 19: ON THE VARIOUS DISTINCTIONS OF THE WILL OF GOD
DISPUTATION 20: ON THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD WHICH COME TO BE CONSIDERED UNDER HIS WILL AND, FIRST, ON THOSE WHICH HAVE AN ANALOGY TO THE AFFECTIONS OR PASSIONS IN RATIONAL CREATURES
DISPUTATION 21: ON THOSE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD WHICH HAVE SOME ANALOGY TO THE MORAL VIRTUES, AND WHICH ACT LIKE MODERATORS OF THE AFFECTIONS, CONSIDERED IN THE PRECEDING DISPUTATION.
DISPUTATION 22: ON THE POWER OR CAPABILITY OF GOD
DISPUTATION 23: ON THE PERFECTION, BLESSEDNESS AND GLORY OF GOD
DISPUTATION 24: ON CREATION
DISPUTATION 25: ON ANGELS IN GENERAL AND IN PARTICULAR
DISPUTATION 26: ON THE CREATION OF MAN AFTER THE IMAGE OF GOD
DISPUTATION 27: ON THE LORDSHIP OR DOMINION OF GOD
DISPUTATION 28: ON THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD
DISPUTATION 29: ON THE COVENANT INTO WHICH GOD ENTERED WITH OUR FIRST PARENTS
DISPUTATION 30: THE MANNER IN WHICH MAN CONDUCTED HIMSELF FOR FULFILLING THE FIRST COVENANT, OR ON THE SIN OF OUR FIRST PARENTS
DISPUTATION 31: ON THE EFFECTS OF THE SIN OF OUR FIRST PARENTS
DISPUTATION 32: ON THE NECESSITY OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION
DISPUTATION 33: ON THE RESTORATION OF MAN
DISPUTATION 34: ON THE PERSON OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST
DISPUTATION 35: ON THE PRIESTLY OFFICE OF CHRIST
DISPUTATION 36: ON THE PROPHETICAL OFFICE OF CHRIST
DISPUTATION 37: ON THE REGAL OFFICE OF CHRIST
DISPUTATION 38: ON THE STATES OF CHRIST'S HUMILIATION AND EXALTATION
DISPUTATION 39: ON THE WILL, AND COMMAND OF GOD THE FATHER AND OF CHRIST, BY WHICH THEY WILL AND COMMAND THAT RELIGION BE PERFORMED TO THEM BY SINFUL MAN
DISPUTATION 40: ON THE PREDESTINATION OF BELIEVERS
DISPUTATION 41: ON THE PREDESTINATION OF THE MEANS TO THE END
DISPUTATION 42: ON THE VOCATION OF SINFUL MEN TO CHRIST, AND TO A PARTICIPATION OF SALVATION IN HIM
DISPUTATION 43: ON THE REPENTANCE BY WHICH MEN ANSWER TO THE DIVINE VOCATION
DISPUTATION 44: ON FAITH IN GOD AND CHRIST
DISPUTATION 45: ON THE UNION OF BELIEVERS WITH CHRIST
DISPUTATION 46: ON THE COMMUNION OF BELIEVERS WITH CHRIST, AND PARTICULARLY WITH HIS DEATH
DISPUTATION 47: THE COMMUNION OF BELIEVERS WITH CHRIST IN REGARD TO HIS LIFE
DISPUTATION 48: ON JUSTIFICATION
DISPUTATION 49: ON THE SANCTIFICATION OF MAN
DISPUTATION 50: ON THE CHURCH OF GOD AND OF CHRIST: OR ON THE CHURCH IN GENERAL AFTER THE FALL
DISPUTATION 51: ON THE CHURCH OF THE OLD TESTAMENT, OR UNDER THE PROMISE
DISPUTATION 52: ON THE CHURCH OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, OR UNDER THE GOSPEL
DISPUTATION 53: ON THE HEAD AND THE MARKS OF THE CHURCH
DISPUTATION 54: ON THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, HER PARTS AND RELATIONS
DISPUTATION 55: ON THE POWER OF THE CHURCH IN DELIVERING DOCTRINES
DISPUTATION 56: ON THE POWER OF THE CHURCH IN ENACTING LAWS
DISPUTATION 57: ON THE POWER OF THE CHURCH IN ADMINISTERING JUSTICE, OR ON ECCLESIASTICAL DISCIPLINE
DISPUTATION 58: ON COUNCILS
DISPUTATION 59: ON THE ECCLESIASTICAL MINISTRATIONS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT AND ON THE VOCATION TO THEM
DISPUTATION 60: ON SACRAMENTS IN GENERAL
DISPUTATION 61: ON THE SACRAMENTS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT, THE TREE OF LIFE, CIRCUMCISION, AND THE PASCHAL LAMB
DISPUTATION 62: ON THE SACRAMENTS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT IN GENERAL
DISPUTATION 63: ON BAPTISM AND PAEDO-BAPTISM
DISPUTATION 64: ON THE LORD'S SUPPER
DISPUTATION 65: ON THE POPISH MASS
DISPUTATION 66: ON THE FIVE FALSE SACRAMENTS
DISPUTATION 67: ON THE WORSHIP OF GOD IN GENERAL
DISPUTATION 68: ON THE PRECEPTS OF DIVINE WORSHIP IN GENERAL
DISPUTATION 69: ON OBEDIENCE, THE FORMAL OBJECT OF ALL THE DIVINE PRECEPTS
DISPUTATION 70: ON OBEDIENCE TO THE COMMANDS OF GOD IN GENERAL
DISPUTATION 71: ON THE MATERIAL OBJECT OF THE PRECEPTS OF THE LAW IN GENERAL
DISPUTATION 72: THE LOVE, FEAR, TRUST, AND HONOR WHICH ARE DUE FROM MAN TO GOD
DISPUTATION 73: ON PARTICULAR ACTS OF OBEDIENCE, OR THOSE WHICH ARE PRESCRIBED IN EACH PRECEPT, OR CONCERNING THE DECALOGUE IN GENERAL
DISPUTATION 74: ON THE FIRST COMMAND IN THE DECALOGUE
DISPUTATION 75: ON THE SECOND COMMAND IN THE DECALOGUE
DISPUTATION 76: ON THE THIRD PRECEPT OF THE DECALOGUE
DISPUTATION 77: ON THE FOURTH COMMAND IN THE DECALOGUE
DISPUTATION 78: ON THE FIFTH COMMAND IN THE DECALOGUE
DISPUTATION 79: ON THE SIXTH PRECEPT
    
DISSERTATION OF THE TRUE AND GENUINE SENSE OF THE SEVENTH CHAPTER OF ST. PAUL'S EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS
DEDICATION
DISSERTATION
FIRST PART
1. THE THESIS TO BE PROVED
2. THE CONNECTION OF THE SEVENTH CHAPTER WITH THE SIXTH
  
Romans 7:14
Romans 7:15
Romans 7:16
Romans 7:17
Romans 7:18, 19
Romans 7:20
Romans 7:21 
Romans 7:22, 23
 
THE ANCIENT FATHERS
MODERN DIVINES
  
Romans 7:24
Romans 7:25
  
3. RECAPITULATION
4. THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE SEVENTH AND THE EIGHTH CHAPTERS
  
SECOND PART
 
1. THE OPINION WHICH IS TO BE CORROBORATED BY TESTIMONIES
2. THE MOST ANCIENT AND MOST RESPECTABLE OF THE CHRISTIAN FATHERS APPROVE OF THE INTERPRETATION WHICH WE GIVE TO THIS CHAPTER
3. THE OPINION OF ST. AUGUSTINE
4. OUR OPINION IS SUPPORTED BY SEVERAL WRITERS OF THE MIDDLE AGES
5. THE FAVORABLE TESTIMONIES OF MORE RECENT DIVINES
  
THIRD PART
 
1. THIS OPINION IS NEITHER HERETICAL NOR ALLIED TO ANY HERESY
2. OUR OPINION IS DIRECTLY OPPOSED TO THE PELAGIAN HERESY
  
FOURTH PART
 
THE OPPOSITE OPINION IS APPROVED BY NONE OF THE ANCIENT DOCTORS OF THE CHURCH
  
FIFTH PART
1. THE OPPOSITE OPINION IS INJURIOUS TO GRACE AND HURTFUL TO GOOD MORALS
2. VARIOUS OBJECTIONS IN FAVOR OF THE COMMON INTERPRETATION ANSWERED
 
 
A LETTER ADDRESSED TO HIPPOLYTUS A COLLIBUS 
CERTAIN ARTICLES
INTRODUCTION
A LETTER
1. THE DIVINITY OF THE SON OF GOD.
2. THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD
3. DIVINE PREDESTINATION
4. GRACE AND FREE WILL
5. JUSTIFICATION
 
 
CERTAIN ARTICLES TO BE DILIGENTLY EXAMINED AND WEIGHED BECAUSE SOME CONTROVERSY HAS ARISEN CONCERNING THEM AMONG EVEN THOSE WHO PROFESS THE REFORMED RELIGION 
 
1. ON THE SCRIPTURE AND HUMAN TRADITIONS
2. ON GOD CONSIDERED ACCORDING TO HIS NATURE
3. ON GOD, CONSIDERED ACCORDING TO THE RELATION BETWEEN THE PERSONS IN THE TRINITY
4. ON THE DECREE OF GOD
5. ON PREDESTINATION TO SALVATION, AND ON DAMNATION CONSIDERED IN THE HIGHEST DEGREE
6. ON THE CREATION, AND CHIEFLY THAT OF MAN
7. ON THE DOMINION OF GOD OVER THE CREATURES, AND CHIEFLY OVER MAN
8. ON THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD
9. ON PREDESTINATION, CONSIDERED IN THE PRIMEVAL STATE OF MAN
10. ON THE CAUSE OF SIN UNIVERSALLY
11. OF THE FALL OF ADAM
12. ON ORIGINAL SIN
13. ON THE PREDESTINATION OF MAN CONSIDERED PARTLY IN HIS PRIMEVAL STATE, AND PARTLY IN THE FALL
14. ON PREDESTINATION CONSIDERED AFTER THE FALL
15. ON THE DECREES OF GOD WHICH CONCERN THE SALVATION OF SINFUL MEN, ACCORDING TO HIS OWN SENSE
16. ON CHRIST
17. ON THE VOCATION OF SINNERS TO COMMUNION WITH CHRIST, AND TO A PARTICIPATION OF HIS BENEFITS
18. ON PENITENCE
19. ON FAITH
20. ON REGENERATION AND THE REGENERATE
21. ON THE PERSEVERANCE OF SAINTS
22. ON THE ASSURANCE OF SALVATION
23. ON THE JUSTIFICATION OF MAN AS A SINNER, BUT YET A BELIEVER, BEFORE GOD
24. ON THE GOOD WORKS OF BELIEVERS
25. ON PRAYER
26. ON THE INFANTS OF BELIEVERS WHEN THEY ARE OFFERED FOR BAPTISM
27. ON THE SUPPER OF THE LORD
28. ON MAGISTRACY
29. ON THE CHURCH OF ROME
 A LETTER ON THE SIN AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST  
 

 
 
A FRIENDLY DISCUSSION BETWEEN JAMES ARMINIUS & FRANCIS JUNIUS, CONCERNING PREDESTINATION, CONDUCTED BY MEANS OF LETTERS
REPLY OF FRANCIS JUNIUS
 
FIRST PROPOSITION OF ARMINIUS
SECOND PROPOSITION OF ARMINIUS
THIRD PROPOSITION OF ARMINIUS
FOURTH PROPOSITION OF ARMINIUS
FIFTH PROPOSITION OF ARMINIUS
SIXTH PROPOSITION OF ARMINIUS
SEVENTH PROPOSITION OF ARMINIUS
EIGHTH PROPOSITION OF ARMINIUS
NINTH PROPOSITION OF ARMINIUS
TENTH PROPOSITION OF ARMINIUS
ELEVENTH PROPOSITION OF ARMINIUS
TWELFTH PROPOSITION OF ARMINIUS
THIRTEENTH PROPOSITION OF ARMINIUS
FOURTEENTH PROPOSITION OF ARMINIUS
FIFTEENTH PROPOSITION OF ARMINIUS
 
 
APPENDIX: 20 THESES OF DR. FRANCIS JUNIUS CONCERNING DIVINE PREDESTINATION &  SOME BRIEF ANNOTATIONS OF JAMES ARMINIUS 
AN EXAMINATION OF A TREATISE; CONCERNING THE ORDER AND MODE OF PREDESTINATION AND THE AMPLITUDE OF DIVINE GRACE BY REV. WILLIAM PERKINS
PART 1
EXAMINATION OF THE ANSWER OF PERKINS TO CERTAIN ALLEGATIONS AGAINST THE ADVOCATES OF UNCONDITIONAL PREDESTINATION
 
ALLEGATION 1: "IT IS TAUGHT BY US THAT CERTAIN MEN, AND FEW IN NUMBER, ARE ELECTED."
ALLEGATION 2: "WE TEACH THAT GOD ORDAINED MEN TO HELL-FIRE, AND THAT HE CREATED THEM, THAT HE MIGHT DESTROY THEM."
ALLEGATION 3: "THE PREDESTINATION OF THE STOICS, AND THE FATALISM OF THE STOICS, HAS BEEN INTRODUCED BY US . . . " 
DISCUSSION OF THE SUBJECT OF PERMISSION
 
ALLEGATION 4: "WE TEACH THAT THE GREATEST PART OF THE HUMAN RACE ARE LEFT WITHOUT CHRIST AND WITHOUT ANY SAVING GRACE."
 
PART 2
 
 
ANALYSIS OF THE NINTH CHAPTER OF THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS

 

 

 

   

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