FREE WILL - A SLAVE...

[ed. We would not agree with everything Charles Spurgeon said or believed (for instance his support of Andrew Fuller among other things; it is probably true that there were two Spurgeons: the younger Spurgeon more sound and the older Spurgeon who softened on his doctrine), but we do recognize his eloquence and his correctness in certain doctrines.  This is one of them.]

INFLUENCE...

BELOVED: – We do well to consider and understand why we do anything, or one thing instead of something else, and what it is that inclines and moves us to action in all we think and feel, say and do.

CIRCULAR LETTER ON FREE WILL 1783 (SAMUEL JONES)...

[ed. Again another excellent circular letter from Samuel Jones of the Philadelphia Association and then Pastor of Pennepeck Church.]

The elders and brethren of the several churches, met in Association at Philadelphia, October 21st, 1783.  To the several churches to which we relate, send greeting.

SOT: FREE WILL 2...

Having found the origin of the free-will system we will proceed to shew its inconsistency with the doctrine of God, for the scriptures fully declare that man is corrupt throughout. “That every imagination of the thoughts of his heart, is evil, and only evil, and that continually,” that the “Carnal mind is enmity against God, is not subject to his law neither indeed can be.”

SOT: FREE WILL...

We will now proceed to remark on our fourth proposition, which is holding the absurd doctrine, that salvation in any measure depends on the free-will of creatures, and yet is the absolute free gift of God through grace, depending on his Election.