The Works of the Reverend John Fletcher, Volume 3

John Fletcher

B. Waugh and T. Mason, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1833 - Methodist Church

Contents

• PORTRAIT OF ST PAUL: 7
• His Christian piety: 13
• His extraordinary vocation to the holy ministry and in what that minis: 19
• His power to bind to loose and to bless in the name of the Lord: 26
• His profound humility: 32
• His rejection of praise: 38
• His charity toward the poor in giving or procuring for them temporal: 44
• His courage in defence of oppressed truth: 50
• His perfect disinterestedness: 58
• The ardour of his love: 64
• His courage in consoling his persecuted brethren: 70
• His readiness to seal with his blood the truths of the Gospel: 76
• APOSTLES: 80
• An answer to the first objection which may be made against the portrait: 86
• A fourth objection refuted: 93
• A farther refutation of the same objection: 101
• A reply to the last objection which may be urged against the portrait: 108
• This doctrine is maintained by all the Christian Churches: 114
• Observations upon the repentance of worldly men: 121
• The second point of doctrine insisted upon by the true minister is a living: 131
• The true minister goes on to announce a lively hope: 145
• The true minister preaches Christian charity: 154
• The true minister believes and preaches the three grand promises of God: 166
• The different dispensations are produced by that lovely variety with which: 173
• The different preachers under these different dispensations: 179
• THE PORTRAIT OF ST PAULPART THIRD AN ESSAY: 198
• The great influence of doctrines upon morality: 206
• The connection of morality with the third part of the apostles creed: 213
• An appeal to experience Page: 215
• The same subject continued: 222
• The advantages of redemption are extended in different degrees to: 230
• APPEAL TO MATTER OF FACT AND COMMON SENSE: 243
• Introduction: 249
• Man considered as an inhabitant of the natural world: 257
• As a citizen of the moral world: 276
• As belonging to the Christian world: 309
• Inferences from the whole: 330
• Concluding address to the serious reader: 343
• Appendix: 373
• VINDICATION OF THE CATHOLIC FAITH OF THE TRINITY: 379
• INTRODUCTION showing the occasion of the work and addressing the reader: 387
• A general view of the catholic faith concerning the Father Son: 398
• God the Father has a proper Son by whom he made and governs: 407
• The view which the apostles give us of Christ after their most perfect: 414
• The apostles apply to Christ many passages of the Old Testament mani festly intended of the true God: 422
• The inspired writers give Christ the names and titles and ascribe: 431
• The apostles represent Christ as the immediate author of the Divine: 440
• Christ is the Redeemer and Saviour of lost mankind: 446
• Christ is the final and universal Judge: 453
• Divine worship was paid to him by patriarchs prophets and apostles: 461
• Christ is also very man: 475
• Objections answered: 483
• The use of the doctrine of Christs divinity: 491
• PREFACE by the editor: 501
• To Dr Priestley proving that our first parents expected a Divine: 507
• The subject continued Page: 511
• prosperous king reigning in righteousness VI The testimony borne by the prophets to the Godhead of Christ: 519
• The evangelists and apostles attest his divinity: 544
• The same subject continued: 550
• SOCINIANISM UNSCRIPTURAL CONTINUED IN LETTERS: 561
• The two Epistles to the Corinthians considered and many passages of: 568
• The Epistle to the Philippians and that to the Colossians must be viewed: 577
• The Epistle to the Hebrews affords abundant proof of the absurdity: 589
• The Epistle of St James and those of St Peter exhibit a doctrine: 595
• The same doctrine of Christs mere humanity represents the apostle John: 604
• It represents Christ himself as uttering declarations absurd and even: 610

Popular passages

Page 462 - And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes ; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying ; neither shall there be any more pain : for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said. Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write : for these words are true and faithful.

Page 172 - Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent...

Page 112 - For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness ; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

Page 149 - In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation : in whom also, after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

Page 31 - And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; that ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ; being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

Page 38 - Now I beseech you, brethren-, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

Page 77 - And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there : save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me. But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

Page 116 - THE condition of man after the fall of Adam is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith and calling upon God : Wherefore we have no power to do good works, pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God, by Christ, preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.

Page 453 - And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was : and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay. 5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.

Page 142 - Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith ; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Works of the Reverend John Fletcher, Volume 3; The Works of the Reverend John Fletcher, John Fletcher; Volume 3 of The Works of the Reverend John Fletcher, Late Vicar of Madeley, John Fletcher
• Author: John Fletcher
• Publisher: B. Waugh and T. Mason, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1833
• Original from: the New York Public Library
• Digitized: Jul 28, 2006