Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2

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The second volume of the works of Jacobus Arminius in English translation, continuing the standard collected edition. Here Arminius's theological arguments on election, the perseverance of believers, and related questions are set out in his own words. Careful readers can trace how his views developed and where they departed from the Reformed teaching of his day.

Contents

1. The Works Of James Arminius Vol. 2.
2. DISPUTATION I ON THEOLOGY
3. DISPUTATION II ON THE MANNER IN WHICH THEOLOGY MUST BE TAUGHT
4. DISPUTATION III ON BLESSEDNESS, THE END OF THEOLOGY
5. DISPUTATION IV ON RELIGION
6. DISPUTATION V ON THE RULE OF RELIGION, THE WORD OF GOD, AND THE SCRIPTURES IN PARTICULAR
7. DISPUTATION VI ON THE AUTHORITY AND CERTAINTY OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES
8. DISPUTATION VII ON THE PERFECTION OF THE SCRIPTURES
9. DISPUTATION VIII ON THE PERSPICUITY OF THE SCRIPTURES I.
10. DISPUTATION IX ON THE MEANINGS AND INTERPRETATION OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES
11. DISPUTATION X ON THE EFFICACY OF THE SCRIPTURES
12. DISPUTATION XI ON RELIGION IN A STRICTER SENSE
13. DISPUTATION XII ON THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, ITS NAME AND RELATION
14. DISPUTATION XIII ON THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, WITH REGARD TO THE MATTER GENERALLY
15. DISPUTATION XIV ON THE OBJECT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION: AND, FIRST, ABOUT GOD, ITS PRIMARY OBJECT, AND WHAT GOD IS I.
16. DISPUTATION XV ON THE NATURE OF GOD
17. DISPUTATION XVI ON THE LIFE OF GOD I.
18. DISPUTATION XVII ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF GOD I.
19. DISPUTATION XVIII ON THE WILL OF GOD
20. DISPUTATION XIX ON THE VARIOUS DISTINCTIONS OF THE WILL OF GOD
21. DISPUTATION XX 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
22. DISPUTATION XXI 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.
23. DISPUTATION XXII ON THE POWER OR CAPABILITY OF GOD I.
24. DISPUTATION XXIII ON THE PERFECTION, BLESSEDNESS AND GLORY OF GOD
25. DISPUTATION XXIV ON CREATION
26. DISPUTATION XXV ON ANGELS IN GENERAL AND IN PARTICULAR
27. DISPUTATION XXVI ON THE CREATION OF MAN AFTER THE IMAGE OF GOD
28. DISPUTATION XXVII ON THE LORDSHIP OR DOMINION OF GOD 🔒
29. DISPUTATION XXVIII ON THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD 🔒
30. DISPUTATION XXIX ON THE COVENANT INTO WHICH GOD ENTERED WITH OUR FIRST PARENTS 🔒
31. DISPUTATION XXX THE MANNER IN WHICH MAN CONDUCTED HIMSELF FOR FULFILLING THE FIRST COVENANT, OR ON THE SIN OF OUR FIRST PARENTS 🔒
32. DISPUTATION XXXI ON THE EFFECTS OF THE SIN OF OUR FIRST PARENTS 🔒
33. DISPUTATION XXXII ON THE NECESSITY OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION 🔒
34. DISPUTATION XXXIII ON THE RESTORATION OF MAN 🔒
35. DISPUTATION XXXIV ON THE PERSON OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST 🔒
36. DISPUTATION XXXV ON THE PRIESTLY OFFICE OF CHRIST 🔒
37. DISPUTATION XXXVI ON THE PROPHETICAL OFFICE OF CHRIST 🔒
38. DISPUTATION XXXVII ON THE REGAL OFFICE OF CHRIST 🔒
39. DISPUTATION XXXVIII ON THE STATES OF CHRIST'S HUMILIATION AND EXALTATION 🔒
40. DISPUTATION XXXIX 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 🔒
41. DISPUTATION XL ON THE PREDESTINATION OF BELIEVERS 🔒
42. DISPUTATION XLI ON THE PREDESTINATION OF THE MEANS TO THE END 🔒
43. DISPUTATION XLII ON THE VOCATION OF SINFUL MEN TO CHRIST, AND TO A PARTICIPATION OF SALVATION IN HIM 🔒
44. DISPUTATION XLIII ON THE REPENTANCE BY WHICH MEN ANSWER TO THE DIVINE VOCATION 🔒
45. DISPUTATION XLIV ON FAITH IN GOD AND CHRIST 🔒
46. DISPUTATION XLV ON THE UNION OF BELIEVERS WITH CHRIST 🔒
47. DISPUTATION XLVI ON THE COMMUNION OF BELIEVERS WITH CHRIST, AND PARTICULARLY WITH HIS DEATH 🔒
48. DISPUTATION XLVII THE COMMUNION OF BELIEVERS WITH CHRIST IN REGARD TO HIS LIFE 🔒
49. DISPUTATION XLVIII ON JUSTIFICATION 🔒
50. DISPUTATION XLIX ON THE SANCTIFICATION OF MAN 🔒
51. DISPUTATION L ON THE CHURCH OF GOD AND OF CHRIST: OR ON THE CHURCH IN GENERAL AFTER THE FALL 🔒
52. DISPUTATION LI ON THE CHURCH OF THE OLD TESTAMENT, OR UNDER THE PROMISE 🔒
53. DISPUTATION LII ON THE CHURCH OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, OR UNDER THE GOSPEL 🔒
54. DISPUTATION LIII ON THE HEAD AND THE MARKS OF THE CHURCH 🔒
55. DISPUTATION LIV ON THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, HER PARTS AND RELATIONS 🔒
56. DISPUTATION LV ON THE POWER OF THE CHURCH IN DELIVERING DOCTRINES 🔒
57. DISPUTATION LVI ON THE POWER OF THE CHURCH IN ENACTING LAWS 🔒
58. DISPUTATION LVII ON THE POWER OF THE CHURCH IN ADMINISTERING JUSTICE, OR ON ECCLESIASTICAL DISCIPLINE 🔒
59. DISPUTATION LVIII ON COUNCILS 🔒
60. DISPUTATION LIX ON THE ECCLESIASTICAL MINISTRATIONS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT AND ON THE VOCATION TO THEM 🔒
61. DISPUTATION LX ON SACRAMENTS IN GENERAL 🔒
62. DISPUTATION LXI ON THE SACRAMENTS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT, THE TREE OF LIFE, CIRCUMCISION, AND THE PASCHAL LAMB 🔒
63. DISPUTATION LXII ON THE SACRAMENTS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT IN GENERAL 🔒
64. DISPUTATION LXIII ON BAPTISM AND PAEDO-BAPTISM 🔒
65. DISPUTATION LXIV ON THE LORD'S SUPPER 🔒
66. DISPUTATION LXV ON THE POPISH MASS 🔒
67. DISPUTATION LXVI ON THE FIVE FALSE SACRAMENTS 🔒
68. DISPUTATION LXVII ON THE WORSHIP OF GOD IN GENERAL 🔒
69. DISPUTATION LXVIII ON THE PRECEPTS OF DIVINE WORSHIP IN GENERAL 🔒
70. DISPUTATION LXIX ON OBEDIENCE, THE FORMAL OBJECT OF ALL THE DIVINE PRECEPTS 🔒
71. DISPUTATION LXX ON OBEDIENCE TO THE COMMANDS OF GOD IN GENERAL 🔒
72. DISPUTATION LXXI ON THE MATERIAL OBJECT OF THE PRECEPTS OF THE LAW IN GENERAL 🔒
73. DISPUTATION LXXII THE LOVE, FEAR, TRUST, AND honour WHICH ARE DUE FROM MAN TO GOD 🔒
74. DISPUTATION LXXIII ON PARTICULAR ACTS OF OBEDIENCE, OR THOSE WHICH ARE PRESCRIBED IN EACH PRECEPT, OR CONCERNING THE DECALOGUE IN GENERAL 🔒
75. DISPUTATION LXXIV ON THE FIRST COMMAND IN THE DECALOGUE 🔒
76. DISPUTATION LXXV ON THE SECOND COMMAND IN THE DECALOGUE 🔒
77. DISPUTATION LXXVI ON THE THIRD PRECEPT OF THE DECALOGUE 🔒
78. DISPUTATION LXXVII ON THE FOURTH COMMAND IN THE DECALOGUE 🔒
79. DISPUTATION LXXVIII ON THE FIFTH COMMAND IN THE DECALOGUE 🔒
80. DISPUTATION LXXIX ON THE SIXTH PRECEPT 🔒
81. COROLLARY 🔒
82. A Dissertation On The True And Genuine Sense Of The Seventh Chapter Of St. Paul’s Epistle To The Romans By That Famous Divine The Rev. James Arminius, D.D. A Native Of Oudewater, In Holland 🔒
83. dedication 🔒
84. A DISSERTATION ON THE TRUE AND GENUINE SENSE OF THE SEVENTH CHAPTER OF THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS. BY JAMES ARMINIUS, D.D. 🔒
85. I. THE THESIS TO BE PROVED 🔒
86. THE CONNECTION OF THE SEVENTH CHAPTER WITH THE SIXTH 🔒
87. THE PROPOSITION OF THE APOSTLE Dehortatory.— 🔒
88. VERSE THE FOURTEENTH 1. 🔒
89. VERSE THE FIFTEENTH 🔒
90. VERSE THE SIXTEENTH. 🔒
91. VERSE THE SEVENTEENTH 🔒
92. THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH VERSES 🔒
93. VERSE THE TWENTIETH 🔒
94. VERSE THE TWENTY-FIRST 🔒
95. THE TWENTY-SECOND AND TWENTY-THIRD VERSES 🔒
96. THE ANCIENT FATHERS CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA. 🔒
97. VERSE THE TWENTY-FOURTH 🔒
98. VERSE THE TWENTY-FIFTH 🔒
99. THE MAN ABOUT WHOM THE APOSTLE IS HERE TREATING, DO FAR AS HE IS: UNDER THE LAW. 🔒
100. THE GRACE OF GOD THROUGH JESUS CHRIST. 🔒
101. THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE SEVENTH AND THE EIGHTH CHAPTERS 🔒
102. I. THE OPINION WHICH IS TO BE CORROBORATED BY TESTIMONIES 🔒
103. II. THE MOST ANCIENT AND MOST RESPECTABLE OF THE CHRISTIAN FATHERS APPROVE OF THE INTERPRETATION WHICH WE GIVE TO THIS CHAPTER 🔒
104. III. THE OPINION OF ST. AUGUSTINE 🔒
105. OUR OPINION IS SUPPORTED BY SEVERAL WRITERS OF THE MIDDLE AGES 🔒
106. V. THE FAVOURABLE TESTIMONIES OF MORE RECENT DIVINES 🔒
107. I. THIS OPINION IS NEITHER HERETICAL NOR ALLIED TO ANY HERESY 🔒
108. OUR OPINION IS DIRECTLY OPPOSED TO THE PELAGIAN HERESY 🔒
109. FOURTH PART 🔒
110. I. THE OPPOSITE OPINION IS INJURIOUS TO GRACE AND HURTFUL TO GOOD MORALS 🔒
111. VARIOUS OBJECTIONS IN FAVOUR OF THE COMMON INTERPRETATION ANSWERED 🔒
112. THE CONCLUSION AN Examination and comparison of each of the three Interpretations of this chapter. 🔒
113. A LETTER ADDRESSED TO HIPPOLYTUS A COLLIBUS, Ambassador from the most illustrious Prince, The elector Palatine, Frederick IV, To the Seven United Dutch Provinces: BY THE REV. JAMES ARMINIUS, D.D. OF OUDEWATER IN HOLLAND An Eminent Professor Of Sacred Theology, Likewise, CERTAIN ARTICLES To be subjected to a diligent examination, because some controversy has arisen about them among the Professors of the reformed Religion: In Which Arminius more fully declares his sentiments on the 🔒
114. letter to reader 🔒
115. A LETTER, BY THE REV. JAMES ARMINIUS, D.D. &c. &c. TO HIS EXCELLENCY, THE NOBLE LORD, HIPPOLYTUS A COLLIBUS, AMBASSADOR, FROM THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS PRINCE, THE ELECTOR PALATINE, TO THE SEVEN UNITED DUTCH PROVINCES, JAMES ARMINIUS WISHETH HEALTH AND SUCCESS MOST NONOURABLE SIR: 🔒
116. THE DIVINITY OF THE SON OF GOD. 🔒
117. THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD 🔒
118. DIVINE PREDESTINATION 🔒
119. GRACE AND FREE WILL 🔒
120. JUSTIFICATION 🔒
121. SCRIPTURE AND HUMAN TRADITIONS 🔒
122. II. ON GOD CONSIDERED ACCORDING TO HIS NATURE 🔒
123. III. ON GOD, CONSIDERED ACCORDING TO THE RELATION BETWEEN THE PERSONS IN THE TRINITY 🔒
124. IV. ON THE DECREE OF GOD 🔒
125. ON PREDESTINATION TO SALVATION, AND ON DAMNATION CONSIDERED IN THE HIGHEST DEGREE 🔒
126. ON THE CREATION, AND CHIEFLY THAT OF MAN 🔒
127. ON THE DOMINION OF GOD OVER THE CREATURES, AND CHIEFLY OVER MAN 🔒
128. ON THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD 1 🔒
129. ON PREDESTINATION, CONSIDERED IN THE PRIMEVAL STATE OF MAN 🔒
130. ON THE CAUSE OF SIN UNIVERSALLY 🔒
131. OF THE FALL OF ADAM 🔒
132. ON ORIGINAL SIN 🔒
133. ON THE PREDESTINATION OF MAN CONSIDERED PARTLY IN HIS PRIMEVAL STATE, AND PARTLY IN THE FALL 🔒
134. ON PREDESTINATION CONSIDERED AFTER THE FALL 🔒
135. ON THE DECREES OF GOD WHICH CONCERN THE SALVATION OF SINFUL MEN, ACCORDING TO HIS OWN SENSE 🔒
136. ON CHRIST 🔒
137. ON THE VOCATION OF SINNERS TO COMMUNION WITH CHRIST, AND TO A PARTICIPATION OF HIS BENEFITS 🔒
138. ON PENITENCE 🔒
139. ON FAITH 🔒
140. ON REGENERATION AND THE REGENERATE 🔒
141. ON THE PERSEVERANCE OF SAINTS 🔒
142. ON THE ASSURANCE OF SALVATION 🔒
143. ON THE JUSTIFICATION OF MAN AS A SINNER, BUT YET A BELIEVER, BEFORE GOD 🔒
144. ON THE GOOD WORKS OF BELIEVERS 🔒
145. ON PRAYER 🔒
146. ON THE INFANTS OF BELIEVERS WHEN THEY ARE OFFERED FOR BAPTISM 🔒
147. ON THE SUPPER OF THE LORD 🔒
148. ON MAGISTRACY 🔒
149. ON THE CHURCH OF ROME 🔒
150. Letter to Uytenbogard 🔒