ABSTRACTED or abstruse
reasoning, whether justly ob-
jected against Calvinists, 404.

Action, inconsistence of
the Arminian notion of it,
287; and whence this arose,
295; what it is in the com-
mon notion of it, 291; and
how distinguished from pas-
sion, 294.

Activity of the nature of
the soul, whether through
this, volition can arise with-
out a cause, 68.

Apparent good, the greatest,
in what sense it determines
the will, 9.

Arminians, obliged to talk
inconsistently, 76. 101. 112;
where the main strength of
their pretended demonstra-
tions lies, 317; their objec-
tion from God's moral cha-
racter considered and retorted,
382-3.

Arminian doctrine, its ten-
dency to supersede all use of
means, and make endeavours
vain, 323; and, in effect, to
exclude all virtue and vice
out of the world, 234. 242.
266. 275. 284. 401.

Atheism, the supposed ten-
dency of Calvinistic princi-
ples to it, 399; how Arminian
principles tend to it, 400.

Attending to motives, of
liberty's being supposed to
consist in an ability for it,
116.

Atonement. See Christ.
Author of sin, whether it
would follow from the doctrine
here maintained, that God is
so, 365.

Blameworthiness, wherein
it consists, according to com-
mon sense, 307.

Calvinism, consistent with
common sense, 298.

Cause, how the word is
used in this discourse, 60; no
event without one, 61; and
effect, a necessary connexion
between them, 106; this re-
spects moral as well as na-
tural causes, 60.

Christ, his obedience neces-
sary, yet virtuous and praise-
worthy, 201; his atonement
excluded in consequence of
Arminian principles, 229.

Chubb (Mr.) the inconsist-
ence of his scheme of liberty,
&c. 123-142.

Commands consistent with
moral necessity and inability,
231. 392; inconsistent with
Arminian principles, 234.

Common sense, why the

principles maintained in this
discourse appear to some con-
trary to it, 298; necessary
virtue and vice agreeable to
it, 307; Arminian tenets op-
posite to it, 257. 272.

Contingence, 29; the in-
consistence of the notion, 65 ;
whether necessary in order to
liberty, 105; implied in Ar-
minian liberty, and yet in-
consistent with it, 192; Epi-
curus the greatest maintainer
of it, 331. 399.

Corruption of man's nature,

417.

Creation of the world, at
such a particular time and
place, 348.

Decree absolute, not in-
ferring necessity, any more
than certain foreknowledge
does, 177; how it follows
from things proved in this
discourse, 420.

Determination. See Will.
Dictates. See Understand-

ing.

Effects. See Cause.
Efficacious grace, 418.
Election personal. See De-

cree.

Endeavours, what it is for
them to be in vain, 319; ren-
dered vain by Arminian prin-
ciples, 323; but not so by
Calvinism, 326. See Sin-
cerity.

Fallen man. See Inability.
Fate, stoical, 321.
Fatality, the principles of
Arminians inferring that which
is most shocking, 331.

Foreknowledge of God, of
volitions of moral agents,
proved, 142; inconsistent with
contingence, 170; proves ne-
cessity as much as a decree,
177; the seeming difficulty
of reconciling it with the sin-
cerity of his precepts, coun-
sels, &c. not peculiar to the
Calvinistic scheme, 393.

God, his being, how known,
62. 400; his moral excel-
lencies necessary, yet virtuous
and praiseworthy, 195. 319;
the necessity of his volitions,
333; whether the principles
maintained in this discourse
are inconsistent with his moral
character, 392; how Armini-
anism destroys the evidence
of his moral perfections, 396.

Grace of the Spirit ex-
cluded by Arminian princi-
ples, 230.

Grace, its freeness consist-
ent with the moral necessity
of God's will, 361.

Habits virtuous and vicious
inconsistent with Arminian
principles, 262.

Heathen, of their salvation,

257.

world, 389.

Hobbes, his doctrine of ne-

used in common speech,
and how by metaphysicians
and Arminians, 21. 29. 291;
natural and moral, 30; moral,
the several kinds of it, 36.
240; of fallen man to per-
form perfect obedience, 227;
what does, and what does not
excuse men, 224. 243. 299.

Inclinations. See Habits.
Indifference, whether li-
berty consists in it, 91; not
necessary to virtue, but in-
consistent with it, 260.

Indifferent things, those
which appear so, never the
objects of volition, 9. 82;
whether the will can deter-
mine itself in choosing among
such things, 82.

Invitations consistent with
moral necessity and inability,
245, 392; but not consistent
with Arminian principles, 117.
273.396.

mon sense.

Necessity, how the term is
used in common speech, and
how by philosophers, 19. 300;
philosophical of various kinds,
304; natural and moral, 30.
315; no liberty without mo-
ral necessity, 105; necessity
and contingence, both incon-
sistent with Arminian liberty,
189; necessity of God's vo-
lition, 195. 333; this con-
sistent with the freeness of
his grace, 361; necessity of
Christ's obedience, &c. 200;
of the sin of such as are given
up to sin, 221; of fallen man

in general, 227; what neces-
sity wholly excuses men, 244.
299. 311.

Obedience. See Christ,
Commands, Necessity.

Particles perfectly alike, of
the Creator's placing such dif-
ferently, 351.

Perseverance of saints, 423.
Promises, whether any are
made to the endeavours of
unregenerate sinners, 256.

Providence, universal and
decisive, 416.

Redemption particular,

422.

Reformers, the first, how
treated by many late writers,

425.

and licentiousness, the objec-
tion considered and retorted,
399.

liberty, 318.

Scripture, of the Arminians'
arguments from thence, 397.
Self-determining power of
the will, its inconsistence, 46;
evasions of the arguments
against it considered, 52;
shewn to be impertinent, 74.
Sin. See Author, Entrance.
Sincerity of desires and en-
deavours, what is no just ex-
cuse, 246; the different sorts
of sincerity, 253.

Sloth, not encouraged by
Calvinism, 324.

Stoic philosophers great
theists, 399. See Fate.

Suspending volition, of the
liberty of the will supposed to
consist in an ability for it,
101. 236. 270.

Tendency of the principles
here maintained to atheism

Arminian doctrine; their es-
sence not lying in their cause,
but their nature, 278.

Understanding, how it de-
termines the will, 17. 110;
dictates of the understanding
and will, as supposed by some
the same, 117.

Uneasiness, as supposed to
determine the will, 10.
Volition, not without a
cause, 68, 73.

Will, its nature, 1, &c.;
its determination, 6, &c.;
the very being of such a fa-
culty inconsistent with Armi-
nian principles, 276; of God's
secret and revealed, 381; Ar-
minians themselves obliged to
allow such a distinction, 384.

Willingness to duty, what
is no excuse for the neglect
of it. See Sincerity.