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Contents <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Works</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Abraham</strong> <strong>Booth</strong><br />

Volume 1:<br />

Memoir <strong>of</strong> the Author<br />

The Reign <strong>of</strong> Grace<br />

The Death <strong>of</strong> Legal Hope<br />

Volume 2:<br />

Glad Tidings to Perishing Sinners<br />

Essay on the Kingdom <strong>of</strong> Christ<br />

Apology for Baptists<br />

Volume 3:<br />

Divine Justice Essential to the Divine Character<br />

Appendix to the Foregoing, Relative to the Doctrine <strong>of</strong> Atonement<br />

by Jesus Christ<br />

The Amen to Social Prayer, illustrated and improved<br />

Pastoral Cautions, &c.<br />

Commerce in the Human Species, and the enslaving <strong>of</strong> Innocent Persons,<br />

inimical to the Laws <strong>of</strong> Moses and the Gospel <strong>of</strong> Jesus Christ<br />

The Christian Triumph: a Sermon Occasioned by the Death <strong>of</strong><br />

Miss Ann Williams<br />

Address Delivered at her Interment<br />

Address at the Interment <strong>of</strong> Mr. Thomas Wilton<br />

Address at the Interment <strong>of</strong> Benjamin Wallin, M.A.<br />

Address at the Interment <strong>of</strong> Mr. Joseph Swain<br />

Address at the Interment <strong>of</strong> Samuel Stennett, D.D.<br />

The Christian’s Happiness in the Heavenly State; a Sermon<br />

Occasioned by the Death <strong>of</strong> Mr. S. Gill.<br />

Posthumous Essays<br />

Miscellaneous


Volume 4:<br />

Pædobaptism Examined –<br />

Part 1: The Mode <strong>of</strong> Administration<br />

Part 2: The Proper Subjects (Chapters 1-3)<br />

Volume 5:<br />

Pædobaptism Examined –<br />

Part 2: The Proper Subjects (Chapters 4-5)<br />

Part 3: Reply to Dr. Williams (Chapters 1-3)<br />

Volume 6:<br />

Pædobaptism Examined –<br />

Part 3: Reply to Dr. Williams (Chapters 4-8)<br />

Part 4: Reply to Mr. Peter Edwards


The<br />

WORKS OF<br />

ABRAHAM BOOTH<br />

Volume 1<br />

The Reign <strong>of</strong> Grace<br />

The Death <strong>of</strong> Legal Hope<br />

the Life <strong>of</strong> Evangelical Obedience<br />

PARTICULAR BAPTIST<br />

HERITAGE BOOKS<br />

Knightstown, Indiana.


The <strong>Works</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Abraham</strong> <strong>Booth</strong>, Volume 1<br />

First PBHB Edition 2022<br />

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email: info@particularbaptistbooks.com<br />

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PBHB is committed to recovering and preserving the literary<br />

heritage <strong>of</strong> Particular Baptists in an attractive, heirloom quality, hardbound<br />

format.<br />

General Editor: D.W. Barger<br />

Copy Editor: A.J. Hammaker<br />

ISBN: 978-1-64127-028-1<br />

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CONTENTS<br />

Publisher’s Note .............................................................................. vii<br />

Preface to Volume 1 <strong>of</strong> <strong>Abraham</strong> <strong>Booth</strong>’s <strong>Works</strong> ....................... ix<br />

Original Biographical Preface (Memoir <strong>of</strong> the Author) ........................ 1<br />

THE REIGN OF GRACE<br />

The Author’s Original Preface .................................................................... 77<br />

Introduction ................................................................................................ 79<br />

Chapter<br />

Page<br />

1. Concerning the Signification <strong>of</strong> the term GRACE .......................... 87<br />

2. Of Grace as it reigns in our SALVATION IN GENERAL ........... 91<br />

3. Of Grace as it reigns in our ELECTION ..................................... 97<br />

4. Of Grace as it reigns in our EFFECTUAL CALLING ............... 151<br />

5. Of Grace as it reigns in a full, free, and<br />

everlasting PARDON ................................................................. 169<br />

6. Of Grace as it reigns in our JUSTIFICATION ........................... 206<br />

7. Of Grace as it reigns in our ADOPTION .................................. 262<br />

8. Of Grace as it reigns in our SANCTIFICATION ....................... 273<br />

9. Concerning the necessity and usefulness <strong>of</strong><br />

HOLINESS and <strong>of</strong> GOOD WORKS ........................................ 297<br />

10. Of Grace as it reigns in the PERSEVERANCE <strong>of</strong><br />

the saints to eternal glory ............................................................ 310<br />

11. Concerning the PERSON <strong>of</strong> CHRIST by whom<br />

Grace reigns ............................................................................... 329<br />

12. Concerning the WORK <strong>of</strong> CHRIST through which<br />

Grace reigns ............................................................................... 350<br />

13. Concerning the CONSUMMATION <strong>of</strong><br />

the glorious reign <strong>of</strong> Grace .......................................................... 359<br />

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THE DEATH OF LEGAL HOPE THE LIFE<br />

OF EVANGELICAL OBEDIENCE<br />

Dedication and Introduction ...................................................................... 389<br />

Section<br />

1. What Law it was to which the apostle was dead ......................... 397<br />

2. Unregenerate Sinners alive to the Law as a Covenant ................. 400<br />

3. Believers dead to the Law, considered as a Covenant ................... 411<br />

4. Of the Law, as dead to Believers ................................................ 443<br />

5. Believers dead to the Law, that they might live to God ................ 452<br />

6. We must be dead to the Law, as a Covenant,<br />

before we can live to God, in holy and acceptable Obedience ......... 466<br />

7. Of the Law, as a Rule <strong>of</strong> Moral Conduct to Believers................. 475<br />

Scripture Index ..................................................................................... 493<br />

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Publisher’s Note<br />

It is hoped that our books will reintroduce many <strong>of</strong> today’s<br />

Calvinistic Baptists to the literary heritage <strong>of</strong> their notable and<br />

largely forgotten forefathers, the Particular Baptists.<br />

Their written works were both spiritually rooted and<br />

theologically driven. They <strong>of</strong>fer not only penetrating insights<br />

into God’s Word, but also a deep spirit <strong>of</strong> devotion to Christ.<br />

Our team works hard to provide the reader with unabridged,<br />

word-for-word renditions <strong>of</strong> these valuable works in new and<br />

durable formats. This means keeping the original spellings,<br />

punctuations, and sentence structures <strong>of</strong> the originals even as<br />

we employ modern fonts and book binding techniques.<br />

For clarity, we also wish to inform our readers that our<br />

publishing <strong>of</strong> an author’s works does not necessarily entail a<br />

complete endorsement <strong>of</strong> every doctrinal point held by that<br />

author. Our goal is to give our readers access to Particular<br />

Baptist sources which will edify the Church and continue the<br />

work <strong>of</strong> Baptist historiography, not to stifle our heritage in the<br />

hope <strong>of</strong> strengthening present convictions.<br />

Finally, among the many pressing needs <strong>of</strong> Calvinistic Baptist<br />

churches today is the need to identify, recover, and preserve<br />

their rich literary heritage.<br />

If you agree, there is a way for you to help. Our publishing<br />

ministry depends heavily upon financial partners eager to<br />

subsidize the cost <strong>of</strong> republishing these valuable works.<br />

Will you prayerfully consider becoming a publishing partner?<br />

To do so, visit our website: www.ParticularBaptistBooks.com<br />

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The <strong>Works</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Abraham</strong> <strong>Booth</strong>, when complete, will include all<br />

the works published during <strong>Booth</strong>’s lifetime. The first three<br />

volumes are reprinted from Button & Son’s 1813 edition, while<br />

the remaining volumes will contain his literary tome,<br />

Paedobaptism Examined. The present volume, first in the series,<br />

begins with the Button & Son’s Memoir <strong>of</strong> the Author. The<br />

writers recount <strong>Booth</strong>’s humble beginnings on the family farm,<br />

his early efforts at self-education, his baptism into the General<br />

Baptist ranks at the age <strong>of</strong> 21, and his rise as a preacher in that<br />

movement. They then recount <strong>Booth</strong>’s change in conviction,<br />

leading to his separation from the General Baptists and<br />

realignment with the Particular, or Calvinistic, Baptists.<br />

<strong>Booth</strong> wrote the second book in this volume, The Reign <strong>of</strong><br />

Grace, while pastoring a small Particular Baptist congregation<br />

at Bare’s Hall. The work originated as a series <strong>of</strong> discourses<br />

delivered to this congregation. After completing a draft<br />

manuscript, he showed it to a few <strong>of</strong> his friends, including the<br />

prominent evangelical Anglican Henry Venn. Venn was so<br />

pleased with <strong>Booth</strong>’s work that he drove the effort to have the<br />

book published. The book went to press in April <strong>of</strong> 1768,<br />

complete with a preface by Henry Venn.<br />

The Reign <strong>of</strong> Grace has since become <strong>Booth</strong>’s most influential<br />

work. The premise is simple: from beginning to end, the<br />

believer’s salvation is owing entirely to grace. In the opening<br />

chapter, he defines his subject. Grace is “the eternal and<br />

absolutely free favour <strong>of</strong> God, manifested in the<br />

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vouchsafement [i.e. the bestowing] <strong>of</strong> spiritual and eternal<br />

blessings to the guilty and the unworthy” (88). He explains that<br />

God’s grace is “eternal,” “divinely free,” and “infinitely rich.”<br />

<strong>Booth</strong> personifies grace as a queen throughout his work; a<br />

sovereign who conquers sin, death, and ruin, and powerfully<br />

works to lead her subjects to everlasting joy.<br />

Chapters three through eight essentially walk the reader<br />

through <strong>Booth</strong>’s ordo salutus, to demonstrate how grace reigns<br />

from beginning to end. He starts with election, which he also<br />

calls “distinguishing grace.” This chapter is an utter repudiation<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>Booth</strong>’s earlier General Baptist convictions and <strong>of</strong>fers a<br />

powerful exposition <strong>of</strong> Reformed theology. He tells us that in<br />

election, “our Sovereign” first chose Christ, and then chose a<br />

special people to be under his headship in a single, spiritual<br />

body. Election is an act <strong>of</strong> grace because the elect contribute<br />

nothing to God’s choice. Grace “never affords her smiles to<br />

any because they are worthy,” <strong>Booth</strong> writes. “She ennobles<br />

none because they are better than others. So to do would be<br />

quite inconsistent with her amiable character; would be utterly<br />

subversive to her grand design” (107).<br />

In subsequent chapters <strong>Booth</strong> demonstrates the reign <strong>of</strong><br />

grace in the sinner’s effectual calling (which he equates with<br />

regeneration), then their pardon and justification. “Pardon is a<br />

blessing <strong>of</strong> superlative worth,” he says, “because absolutely<br />

necessary to present peace and future salvation. Without it, no<br />

individual <strong>of</strong> Adam’s race can be happy” (169). Justification,<br />

which subsumes pardon, is “a judicial, but gracious act <strong>of</strong> God;<br />

by which a sinner is absolved from the guilt <strong>of</strong> sin, is freed<br />

from condemnation, and has a right to eternal life adjudged,<br />

merely for the sake <strong>of</strong> our Lord’s obedience, which is imputed<br />

to him, and received by faith” (209-10). It is an act <strong>of</strong> grace<br />

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because “God appoints the way . . . provides the means: and<br />

. . . imputes the righteousness” (210).<br />

The next chapter considers adoption, which is “God’s<br />

gracious admission <strong>of</strong> strangers and aliens, into the state,<br />

relation, and enjoyment <strong>of</strong> all the privileges <strong>of</strong> children,<br />

through Jesus Christ: according to that glorious promise <strong>of</strong> the<br />

new covenant—I will be a Father unto you, and ye shall by my<br />

sons and daughters” (262-63). God does not adopt because <strong>of</strong><br />

anything admirable in the sinner, but merely out <strong>of</strong> his own<br />

sovereign pleasure: “That the children <strong>of</strong> wrath should become<br />

the inheritors <strong>of</strong> glory, and the slaves <strong>of</strong> Satan be acknowledge<br />

as the sons <strong>of</strong> Jehovah: that the enemies <strong>of</strong> God should be<br />

adopted into his family, and have an indefeasible right to all the<br />

privileges <strong>of</strong> his children, are astonishing to the last degree,” he<br />

declares (264).<br />

The next three chapters explore the doctrines <strong>of</strong><br />

sanctification and perseverance, matters <strong>of</strong> “vast importance”<br />

given that sanctification is “the end <strong>of</strong> our eternal election . . .<br />

the primary intention <strong>of</strong> justification—the scope <strong>of</strong><br />

adoption—and absolutely necessary to glorification” (273).<br />

They are also gracious works <strong>of</strong> God in that the blessings are<br />

promised and secured by God. This section includes a<br />

treatment <strong>of</strong> God’s moral law and its relation to the new<br />

covenant believer. <strong>Booth</strong> contends that the moral law is<br />

immutable, but individuals may relate to it in one <strong>of</strong> two ways:<br />

either as a covenant <strong>of</strong> works, or as a rule <strong>of</strong> life. In the former<br />

case, the sinner stakes his hope for eternal life on his own<br />

ability to keep the law, and he accepts eternal condemnation if<br />

he fails. This is how all men not under the reign <strong>of</strong> grace relate<br />

to God’s law, and it is why all therein are condemned. But for<br />

those under the reign <strong>of</strong> grace, it is different. They strive to<br />

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keep God’s moral law because they see its beauty, is blessings,<br />

and its divine imperative. However, they do not stake their<br />

justification on their own law-keeping. They rely instead on the<br />

alien righteousness <strong>of</strong> Christ, imputed to them through the<br />

instrumentality <strong>of</strong> faith, which is itself a gift <strong>of</strong> God.<br />

Chapters eleven and twelve consider the person and work <strong>of</strong><br />

Christ, the one by whom grace reigns. <strong>Booth</strong> expounds upon<br />

Christ’s dual nature and threefold <strong>of</strong>fice <strong>of</strong> prophet, priest, and<br />

king. In his concluding chapter, he considers the<br />

consummation <strong>of</strong> the reign <strong>of</strong> grace: eternal life, which is “An<br />

everlasting state <strong>of</strong> complete holiness, consummate happiness,<br />

in the presence and fruition <strong>of</strong> God, in all his Persons and<br />

perfections” (359). That blessed state begins the moment a<br />

regenerate soul separates from the body, but will not be<br />

consummated until the resurrection and Final Judgment. “This<br />

is the end <strong>of</strong> the victorious Reign <strong>of</strong> Grace” he declares.<br />

“Grace reigned in the eternal counsels, when contriving the<br />

way to this glorious end. Grace reigned in providing the means,<br />

and in bestowing the blessings, that were necessary to its<br />

accomplishment. Grace reigned to the complete execution <strong>of</strong><br />

the noble, the astonishing design, from first to last” (379).<br />

<strong>Booth</strong>’s The Reign <strong>of</strong> Grace earned him such notoriety in<br />

Particular Baptist circles that he was soon called away from<br />

Bare’s Hall to lead a Baptist church on Little Prescot Street in<br />

London. Here he had opportunity to learn Latin and Greek,<br />

and then to immerse himself in works <strong>of</strong> theology and church<br />

history. The Death <strong>of</strong> Legal Hope, the third work in this volume,<br />

was published in 1770 while <strong>Booth</strong> was pastoring in London.<br />

Written as a supplement to The Reign <strong>of</strong> Grace, this little book<br />

argues that the grace which leads to salvation has no tendency<br />

to relax one’s obligations to holiness, bur rather confirms<br />

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them. He explains that being “dead to the law” (Gal. 2:19)<br />

means giving up on the law as a covenant <strong>of</strong> works; <strong>of</strong> pinning<br />

one’s hopes for justification and life on one’s own personal<br />

righteousness. At the same time, its opposite, “living to God”<br />

(again, Gal. 2:19), does not mean lawlessness, but having<br />

genuine love for God which leads to “conscientious<br />

conformity to his commands” (454). Those who are living to<br />

God make God’s law their rule <strong>of</strong> life, even as they have<br />

abandoned the law as a covenant <strong>of</strong> works. They love God’s<br />

law, delight in it, see the blessings <strong>of</strong> conforming to it, and do<br />

not wish to violate it.<br />

In this work as well as the others, <strong>Booth</strong> writes as a preacher.<br />

Each doctrine is carefully expounded and then practically<br />

applied. He poses questions designed to pierce through both<br />

logical inconsistencies and moral excuses. <strong>Booth</strong>’s<br />

combination <strong>of</strong> intellectual rigor, evangelical conviction, and<br />

lucid writing has bequeathed to the Church a literary legacy that<br />

is a joy to read and a delightful challenge to put into practice.<br />

-Brandon Crawford<br />

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THE<br />

W O R K S<br />

OF<br />

ABRAHAM BOOTH,<br />

LATE<br />

Pastor <strong>of</strong> the Baptist Church<br />

ASSEMBLING IN<br />

LITTLE PRESCOT STREET, GOODMAN’S FIELDS,<br />

LONDON.<br />

WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF HIS<br />

LIFE AND WRITINGS<br />

VOL. I<br />

London:<br />

J. Haddon, 12, Tabernacle Walk,<br />

Finsbury Square.<br />

PUBLISHED AND SOLD BY BUTTON & SON, PATERNOSTER-<br />

ROW;<br />

BURTON, LEADENHALL STREET; AND BAGSTER, STRAND.<br />

SOLD ALSO BY<br />

GALE, CURTIS, AND FENNER; BAYNES, HAMILTON, AND W. JONES,<br />

PATERNOSTER-ROW; WILLIAMS AND SON, STATIONERS’ COURT; AND<br />

OLIPHANT, WAUGH,<br />

AND INNES, EDINBURGH<br />

1813.


MEMOIR<br />

OF<br />

THE AUTHOR<br />

In <strong>of</strong>fering to the public an uniform edition <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Works</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />

the late Mr. <strong>Abraham</strong> <strong>Booth</strong>, it may be expected that, in<br />

compliance with general custom, it should be accompanied<br />

with some account <strong>of</strong> their estimable author. His writings,<br />

indeed, where known, stand in no need <strong>of</strong> panegyric to<br />

recommend them to the regard <strong>of</strong> any who have a cordial<br />

attachment to divine truth; and <strong>of</strong> his personal history there is<br />

little to be told with which his cotemporaries are not already<br />

acquainted.<br />

But in collecting his numerous productions into one body,<br />

which is now first done, it must not be forgotten, that they are<br />

assuming a form in which they are destined to descend to<br />

future times, when all that relates to him will be perused with<br />

avidity; and the publishers have the satisfaction <strong>of</strong> thinking that<br />

they are now performing a service which, in the opinion <strong>of</strong><br />

many, has been too long delayed; that they are taking the most<br />

effectual means to prevent any <strong>of</strong> his smaller pieces from<br />

falling into obscurity; and establishing a repository for the<br />

instruction and edification <strong>of</strong> numbers yet unborn: for it surely<br />

can be no presumption to affirm that, so long as the churches<br />

<strong>of</strong> Christ in this country shall continue to cherish a reverential<br />

regard for the doctrine <strong>of</strong> sovereign, rich, and free grace, these<br />

Volumes will continue to be held in high estimation.<br />

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<strong>Abraham</strong> <strong>Booth</strong> was born at Blackwell in Derbyshire, on the<br />

20th <strong>of</strong> May 1734, Old Style. In the first year <strong>of</strong> his life, his<br />

parents removed from Blackwell to Annesley Woodhouse, a<br />

small hamlet in the parish <strong>of</strong> Annesley, Nottinghamshire,<br />

where they occupied a farm belonging to the Duke <strong>of</strong> Portland.<br />

Of a numerous family <strong>of</strong> children, <strong>Abraham</strong> was the oldest;<br />

and there the first fifteen or sixteen years <strong>of</strong> his life were<br />

passed, assisting his father, as soon as he was able, in his<br />

agricultural concerns.<br />

The advantages <strong>of</strong> education, which are <strong>of</strong> such unspeakable<br />

importance to the cultivation <strong>of</strong> our mental powers, are<br />

generally <strong>of</strong> difficult attainment in villages and the retired<br />

districts <strong>of</strong> the country; and a century ago they were probably<br />

more so than at present. This may help us to account for a<br />

circumstance which Mr. <strong>Booth</strong> has <strong>of</strong>ten been heard to<br />

mention amongst his friends; that until he quitted the farming<br />

business he never spent six months at school. His father taught<br />

him to read, making it a general practice to hear him his lesson<br />

every day after dinner.<br />

It is certainly a very just remark, that there are no characters<br />

however eminent among our species, whose biography is so<br />

instructive, or in which we feel more interested, than those<br />

which exhibit to our view persevering efforts surmounting<br />

formidable obstacles, and distinguished eminence gradually<br />

arising out <strong>of</strong> obscurity and depression. Such is the discipline<br />

through which many <strong>of</strong> the greatest names in the republic <strong>of</strong><br />

letters have passed; nor have any <strong>of</strong> the original favourites <strong>of</strong><br />

nature or the children <strong>of</strong> affluence attained a superiority so<br />

solid and durable as that which has been acquired by such a<br />

state <strong>of</strong> probation.


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The energy <strong>of</strong> our author’s mind, which appeared so<br />

conspicuously throughout the subsequent period <strong>of</strong> his life,<br />

began very early to develope itself. He was indebted almost<br />

entirely to his own industry and application for his pr<strong>of</strong>iciency<br />

in the art <strong>of</strong> writing and in the science <strong>of</strong> arithmetic. And as he<br />

grew up, so devoted did he become to his studies, that he<br />

chearfully sacrificed the hours usually allotted to repose and<br />

recreation, for the pleasure he found in prosecuting them.<br />

When the other members <strong>of</strong> the family retired to rest,<br />

<strong>Abraham</strong> withdrew to cultivate his mind.<br />

The parents <strong>of</strong> our author, were pr<strong>of</strong>essedly members <strong>of</strong> the<br />

church <strong>of</strong> England; and <strong>of</strong> course trained up their son in a<br />

customary reverence for the national establishment <strong>of</strong> religion.<br />

The first direction <strong>of</strong> his mind towards the dissenters took<br />

place when he was about ten years <strong>of</strong> age; and was occasioned<br />

by the preaching <strong>of</strong> some plain and illiterate teachers belonging<br />

to the denomination <strong>of</strong> General (or Arminian) Baptists who<br />

occasionally visited his neighbourhood. They drew the<br />

attention <strong>of</strong> the family; and under their discourses our author<br />

was first awakened to a concern about the salvation <strong>of</strong> his soul.<br />

His convictions were permanent and increased with his years;<br />

but it is plain from the history <strong>of</strong> his own mind that it was long<br />

after this ere he attained any just and clear views <strong>of</strong> the true<br />

grace <strong>of</strong> God, or was enlightened into the important doctrine<br />

<strong>of</strong> acceptance with God as revealed in the New Testament. He,<br />

however, applied to the society <strong>of</strong> General Baptists to be<br />

admitted into their communion, and was accordingly baptized<br />

on a pr<strong>of</strong>ession <strong>of</strong> his faith, by Mr. Francis Smith, at Barton,<br />

in 1755, at which time he was about the age <strong>of</strong> twenty-one.<br />

Some years previous to this, young <strong>Booth</strong> had relinquished<br />

the farming business; and, induced probably by the hope <strong>of</strong>


eing able to pursue his studies with less interruption, he had<br />

applied himself to learn the business <strong>of</strong> a stocking-maker, but<br />

was never articled as an apprentice to the trade. He, however,<br />

managed to support himself by that means, from the age <strong>of</strong><br />

sixteen to that <strong>of</strong> four-and-twenty, at which period he married<br />

Miss Elizabeth Bowmar, the daughter <strong>of</strong> a neighbouring<br />

farmer, with whom he enjoyed much domestic felicity during<br />

more than forty years.<br />

But, possessing so vigorous a mind, it was not likely that Mr.<br />

<strong>Booth</strong> should long continue a mechanic. He had now been<br />

diligently occupied for several years in the acquisition <strong>of</strong> useful<br />

knowledge; his capacity had attained to a considerable degree<br />

<strong>of</strong> maturity; he had entered into an important domestic<br />

relation; and he had before him, the prospect <strong>of</strong> a numerous<br />

family for whom he was bound to provide; and he, therefore,<br />

adopted the resolution <strong>of</strong> opening a School at Sutton Ashfield,<br />

about two miles from Kirby, for the instruction <strong>of</strong> youth. Mrs.<br />

<strong>Booth</strong> assisted the undertaking by instructing the female pupils<br />

in the useful branches <strong>of</strong> needle work, for which she had been<br />

eminently qualified by her education, in respect <strong>of</strong> which she<br />

had been privileged far beyond what commonly falls to the lot<br />

<strong>of</strong> young women in the same rank <strong>of</strong> life. They also wished to<br />

take a few boarders, but that part <strong>of</strong> the plan met with but little<br />

success, for the number seldom exceeded two or three.<br />

The society <strong>of</strong> General Baptists, with which Mr. <strong>Booth</strong> now<br />

stood connected, had sufficient discernment to perceive that<br />

he possessed abilities which only required cultivation to mature<br />

and raise to excellence. They accordingly invited him to assist<br />

occasionally in the public preaching <strong>of</strong> the word; and so rapid<br />

was his improvement, that, in a little time, he was considered<br />

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considerably throughout the neighbouring districts; and our<br />

author was frequently at Melbourne, Barton, Loughborough,<br />

Diseworth, and other places at the distance <strong>of</strong> twenty, thirty,<br />

and even forty miles from home, preaching the glad tidings <strong>of</strong><br />

salvation to his fellow sinners, according to the views which he<br />

then had <strong>of</strong> divine truth.<br />

In the year 1760, it was thought adviseable to collect into<br />

churches those who had pr<strong>of</strong>essed the faith and been baptized,<br />

and to appoint over them pastors and teachers after the<br />

example <strong>of</strong> the first churches. The society <strong>of</strong> Kirby-<br />

Woodhouse was accordingly submitted to the superintendance<br />

<strong>of</strong> Mr. <strong>Booth</strong>, who continued for several years to labour among<br />

them in the ministry <strong>of</strong> the word; though, for reasons which<br />

do not appear, he declined to take upon himself the pastoral<br />

<strong>of</strong>fice.<br />

His preaching is, nevertheless, said to have been with<br />

considerable acceptance and success; and in the regulation <strong>of</strong><br />

these newly formed societies he proved highly instrumental.<br />

We find him in the same year assisting at the ordination <strong>of</strong> Mr.<br />

F. Smith and Mr. T. Parkins over the General Baptist church<br />

at Melbourne and delivering a solemn charge to them from<br />

Acts 20:28. Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, &c.<br />

In this stage <strong>of</strong> their proceedings, however, a memorable and<br />

important change took place in the religious sentiments <strong>of</strong> Mr.<br />

<strong>Booth</strong>. He had hitherto held the Arminian doctrine <strong>of</strong><br />

Universal Redemption, and been a strenuous advocate for the<br />

universality <strong>of</strong> divine grace. He had written and printed a Poem<br />

on ‘Absolute Predestination,’ in which the fervour <strong>of</strong> his zeal<br />

for what he then esteemed truth, had vented itself in reviling<br />

the doctrines <strong>of</strong> election and particular redemption, in


language as replete with contumely and reproach as is to be<br />

found in the writings <strong>of</strong> Wesley or Fletcher.<br />

We cannot doubt for a moment, that this pamphlet, though<br />

its circulation was very inconsiderable, must have been a<br />

source <strong>of</strong> painful reflection to him in the subsequent period <strong>of</strong><br />

his life, when his mind was better instructed on this sublime<br />

subject; for, in the preface to the ‘The Reign <strong>of</strong> Grace,’ he thus<br />

records his own judgment <strong>of</strong> it: ‘As a poem, if considered in a<br />

critical light, it is despicable; if in a theological view, detestable,<br />

as it is an impotent attack on the honour <strong>of</strong> divine grace in<br />

respect to its glorious freeness, and a bold opposition to the<br />

sovereignty <strong>of</strong> God, and as such I renounce it.” It may indeed<br />

be pleaded as some apology, for its author, that he wrote it<br />

when only twenty years <strong>of</strong> age; and it is important, as serving<br />

to demonstrate the greatness <strong>of</strong> the change which afterwards<br />

took place in his mind relative to the character <strong>of</strong> the Supreme<br />

Being.<br />

To an attentive observer <strong>of</strong> what passes among the various<br />

sects <strong>of</strong> religious pr<strong>of</strong>essors <strong>of</strong> the present day, scarcely any<br />

thing will appear more remarkable than the disposition there is<br />

to fritter away the differences which exist among them, relative<br />

to the doctrines <strong>of</strong> the everlasting gospel and the practices <strong>of</strong><br />

the first christians. Mr. <strong>Booth</strong>, who was, in regard to this<br />

principle, a happy exception to an almost general rule, has<br />

entered his protest against it, and expressed his mind on the<br />

subject so strikingly in his writings that I shall beg leave to<br />

extract a passage or two in this place. Thus, for instance, he<br />

quotes with approbation a modern writer.<br />

A considerable succedaneum for the Christian unity is the<br />

catholic charity, which is like the charity commended by Paul in<br />

only this one circumstance, that it “groweth exceedingly.”—


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Among the stricter sort it goes chiefly under the name <strong>of</strong><br />

forbearance. We shall be much mistaken if we think that, by this<br />

s<strong>of</strong>t and agreeable word is chiefly meant the tenderness and<br />

compassion inculcated by the precepts <strong>of</strong> Jesus Christ and his<br />

apostles. It strictly means an agreement to differ quietly about<br />

the doctrines and commandments <strong>of</strong> the gospel, without<br />

interruption <strong>of</strong> visible fellowship. They distinguish carefully<br />

between fundamentals, or things necessary to be believed and<br />

practised; and circumstantials, or things that are indifferent.—If<br />

men have different notions <strong>of</strong> Jesus Christ, his divinity, his<br />

sacrifice, his kingdom, and the customs <strong>of</strong> his religion, even<br />

from what the apostles seemed to have, charity, with many,<br />

demands that we think well <strong>of</strong> their religious characters<br />

notwithstanding this. It is unbecoming the modesty <strong>of</strong> wise men<br />

to be confident on any side, and contending earnestly for<br />

opinions injures the peace <strong>of</strong> the Christian church. Thus kind<br />

and humble is modern charity. Instead <strong>of</strong> rejoicing in, or with<br />

the truth, it rejoiceth in contemplating the admirable piety that<br />

may be produced from so many different, yea opposite<br />

principles. 1<br />

These pointed strictures upon a mode <strong>of</strong> procedure which,<br />

as it appears to the writer <strong>of</strong> this Memoir, is pregnant with<br />

serious evil to the churches <strong>of</strong> Christ, cannot be too <strong>of</strong>ten<br />

repeated; and their application to the case in hand is too<br />

obvious to need pointing out. Mr. <strong>Booth</strong> was fully aware that<br />

the change which his sentiments had undergone, was <strong>of</strong> such<br />

a nature as to render it utterly impossible for himself and his<br />

friends to walk any longer together in a way that would be<br />

productive <strong>of</strong> mutual comfort; and he had too much integrity<br />

to conceal the difference. The change itself was the fruit <strong>of</strong><br />

1 <strong>Works</strong>, Vol. 2.


deep conviction, and thus at a future period <strong>of</strong> his life we find<br />

his own pen recording it.<br />

The doctrine <strong>of</strong> sovereign, distinguishing grace, as commonly<br />

and justly stated by Calvinists, it must be acknowledged, is too<br />

generally exploded. This the writer <strong>of</strong> these pages knows by<br />

experience, to his grief and shame. Through the ignorance <strong>of</strong> his<br />

mind, the pride <strong>of</strong> his heart, and the prejudice <strong>of</strong> his education,<br />

he, in his younger years, <strong>of</strong>ten opposed it with much warmth,<br />

though with no small weakness; but after an impartial enquiry,<br />

and many prayers, he found reason to alter his judgment; he<br />

found it to be the doctrine <strong>of</strong> the Bible, and a dictate <strong>of</strong> the<br />

unerring Spirit. Thus patronized, he received the once<br />

obnoxious sentiment, under a full conviction <strong>of</strong> its being a<br />

divine truth. 2<br />

The revolution that had now taken place in our author’s<br />

sentiments was soon observed by his friends, and it occasioned<br />

considerable uneasiness in their minds. They respected his<br />

character and approved his ministry. Meetings were held for<br />

the purpose <strong>of</strong> investigating the differences which subsisted<br />

between them, when each party produced the best arguments<br />

they could in behalf <strong>of</strong> their respective tenets; but neither party<br />

succeeding in convincing the other, they mutually agreed to<br />

part.<br />

Now, reader, what think you <strong>of</strong> the law, as a rule <strong>of</strong> moral<br />

conduct? Is it pleasant, is it delightful to you? In vain you<br />

pr<strong>of</strong>ess to know the gracious gospel, while you continue an<br />

enemy to the holy law. For as the law, in its covenant form, is<br />

the appointed mean <strong>of</strong> convincing the careless sinner <strong>of</strong> his<br />

need <strong>of</strong> that righteousness which is revealed in the gospel, for<br />

the justification <strong>of</strong> his person before God, so the gospel,<br />

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exhibiting adequate relief to the distressed conscience, is the<br />

happy instrument <strong>of</strong> conciliating the believer’s regard to the<br />

law, as a rule <strong>of</strong> conduct, that his faith may be evidenced in the<br />

sight <strong>of</strong> men.<br />

Thus the law and the gospel are mutually subservient to one<br />

another, while both agree to promote the happiness <strong>of</strong> the<br />

redeemed, and the glory <strong>of</strong> their divine Author. He, therefore,<br />

who does not pay an habitual regard to the law, in a course <strong>of</strong><br />

obedience, has no experience <strong>of</strong> the gospel, in a way <strong>of</strong><br />

comfort. As he tramples on that divine authority, which<br />

appears in the former, so he despises that boundless grace,<br />

which is revealed in the latter. Such an one is an enemy to both,<br />

and his state is most deplorable.<br />

Remember, reader, that you may talk as much as you please,<br />

about the holy tendency <strong>of</strong> evangelical principles; but the<br />

adversaries <strong>of</strong> the gospel will never believe you, if they do not<br />

see the truth <strong>of</strong> what you say exemplified in your own conduct.<br />

The import <strong>of</strong> those observations which they make on your<br />

conversation, is, ‘You that speak with such fluency and<br />

confidence about the doctrines <strong>of</strong> grace, and the necessity <strong>of</strong><br />

faith, let us see what influence these doctrines have on your<br />

own tempers and your own behaviour? Show us your faith by<br />

your works?’ This is a reasonable demand.—They are<br />

authorised to make it; and wo, wo be to every pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong><br />

evangelical truth, whose behaviour is not answerable to that<br />

demand! For if our conduct be inconsistent with our<br />

pr<strong>of</strong>ession, we shall soon be treated as the greatest enemies to<br />

Christ and his cause.<br />

Are you a believer in Jesus? one that knows the grace <strong>of</strong> God<br />

in truth? You have the purest and strongest motives<br />

imaginable, to regard the law. Has the Son <strong>of</strong> the Highest done


all you were bound to perform, as the condition <strong>of</strong> life; and<br />

suffered all you were condemned to sustain, as the penalty<br />

annexed to disobedience? Has he done and suffered all this in<br />

your stead, that he might procure a full, final, and everlasting<br />

salvation for you, a poor, perishing sinner?<br />

Has he expressed his regard to the law, as a Covenant, not in<br />

words but in deeds; in such deeds as astonish the universe? and<br />

shall you be backward to manifest your love to the law, as a<br />

rule <strong>of</strong> moral duty, by a serious, holy, heavenly conduct? Did<br />

He, whom angels adore, obey, and bleed, and die,—die an<br />

accursed death, that the claims <strong>of</strong> the law, as a covenant, might<br />

be all answered? and shall it seem hard to you, to deny yourself,<br />

to subdue your corruptions, and to walk by this heavenly rule?<br />

Is it the popular clamour against the genuine gospel, ‘That it<br />

makes void the law?’ and shall it be your constant business and<br />

fervent prayer, so to observe the sacred precepts, as to be a<br />

living confutation <strong>of</strong> that detestable slander? Do not reason<br />

and conscience, scripture and experience, all concur to show<br />

the expediency, the utility, the necessity <strong>of</strong> conforming your<br />

life to the law, as a rule?<br />

O, believer! yours is the happy state; let yours be the holy life.<br />

Let it appear that, though dead to the law, as a covenant, you<br />

abhor the things it forbids, and delight in the things it<br />

commands.—Then will you stop the mouths <strong>of</strong> gainsayers;<br />

then will you glorify the name <strong>of</strong> your God.—Amen.<br />

END OF THE FIRST VOLUME.


SCRIPTURE INDEX<br />

Genesis<br />

12:1 ............................................ 237<br />

15:1 ............................................ 378<br />

Exodus<br />

15:11.......................................... 369<br />

23:7 ............................................ 208<br />

32:32.......................................... 200<br />

34:6, 7 ....................................... 174<br />

Leviticus<br />

25:48, 49 ................................... 331<br />

Numbers<br />

14:19, 20 ................................... 200<br />

23:21.......................................... 173<br />

23:22.......................................... 449<br />

Deuteronomy<br />

25:2 ............................................ 208<br />

33:3 ............................................ 314<br />

Ruth<br />

2:20 ............................................ 331<br />

3:9 .............................................. 331<br />

1 Samuel<br />

2:8 .............................................. 369<br />

12:22.......................................... 314<br />

18:23.......................................... 265<br />

25:29.......................................... 320<br />

2 Samuel<br />

7:27-29 ...................................... 325<br />

1 Kings<br />

8:30, 34, 36, 39, 50 .................. 200<br />

8:31, 32 ..................................... 208<br />

2 Kings<br />

21 ............................................... 176<br />

2 Chronicles<br />

33 ............................................... 176<br />

Nehemiah<br />

9:17 ............................................ 174<br />

Job<br />

7:21 ............................................ 200<br />

9:2 .............................................. 391<br />

9:20, 21, 30-32 ......................... 260<br />

9:33 ............................................ 338<br />

13:18.......................................... 208<br />

17:9 ............................................ 314<br />

19:25-27 .................................... 420<br />

21:14, 15 ................................... 278<br />

23:18.......................................... 121<br />

27:5 ............................................ 208<br />

38:7 ............................................ 380<br />

40:4 ................................... 260, 420<br />

42:6 ............................................ 420<br />

43:6 ............................................ 260<br />

Psalms<br />

10:3 ............................................ 307<br />

14:3 ............................................ 171<br />

17:16.......................................... 374<br />

23:2 ............................................ 321<br />

27


30:4 ............................................ 369<br />

32:1 ............................................ 171<br />

32:1, 2 ....................................... 423<br />

32:2 ............................................ 171<br />

35:19.......................................... 216<br />

38:4 ............................................ 171<br />

45:13, 14 ................................... 352<br />

49:4 ............................................ 216<br />

50:22.......................................... 407<br />

51:8, 12 ..................................... 326<br />

51:9 ............................................ 171<br />

63:1, 2 ....................................... 458<br />

84:1, 2 ....................................... 458<br />

85:2 ............................................ 171<br />

89:30.......................................... 292<br />

89:30-32 ........................... 291, 326<br />

89:30-34 .................................... 322<br />

89:33-35 .................................... 316<br />

97:12.......................................... 369<br />

127:3.......................................... 467<br />

130:3.......................................... 260<br />

130:3, 4 ..................................... 421<br />

143:2........................ 260, 420, 427<br />

Proverbs<br />

4:23 ............................................ 327<br />

16:25.......................................... 382<br />

17:15.......................................... 208<br />

28:26................................. 311, 327<br />

Song <strong>of</strong> Songs<br />

4:7 .............................................. 449<br />

5:6 .............................................. 458<br />

Isaiah<br />

6:2-7 .......................................... 261<br />

14:24, 27 ................................... 312<br />

14:27.......................................... 121<br />

27:3 ............................................ 313<br />

33:14.......................................... 406<br />

42:2 ............................................ 265<br />

42:21........................ 437, 448, 484<br />

44:22.......................................... 171<br />

45:17.......................................... 251<br />

45:22.......................................... 252<br />

45:25.......................................... 251<br />

46:10.......................................... 121<br />

46:13.......................................... 352<br />

49:7 .............................................. 83<br />

49:15, 16 ................................... 349<br />

51:5, 6, 8 ................................... 352<br />

56:1 ............................................ 352<br />

56:5 ............................................ 265<br />

60:19.......................................... 378<br />

61:10.......................................... 352<br />

Jeremiah<br />

1:20 ............................................ 173<br />

2:25 ............................................ 174<br />

17:9 ................................... 311, 327<br />

22:42.......................................... 312<br />

23:6 ............................................ 352<br />

31:3 .............................................. 89<br />

31:22.......................................... 334<br />

31:31-34 .................................... 235<br />

32:39, 40 ................................... 314<br />

33:8, 9 ....................................... 175<br />

50:20.......................................... 449<br />

Daniel<br />

9:24 ............................................ 352<br />

11:2, 3 ....................................... 325<br />

Micah<br />

7:18 ............................................ 175<br />

Zephaniah<br />

3:17 ............................................ 312<br />

Zechariah<br />

2:5 .............................................. 313<br />

4:7 .............................................. 432


Scripture Index<br />

12:10.......................................... 296<br />

13:7 ............................................ 341<br />

Malachi<br />

3:17 ............................................ 320<br />

Matthew<br />

3:17 .............................................. 83<br />

5:21, 22, 27, 28,<br />

33, 34, 43, 44 ......................... 414<br />

7:22 ............................................ 375<br />

11:19................................. 207, 208<br />

11:28................................. 171, 450<br />

12:27.......................................... 208<br />

13:43.......................................... 373<br />

18:28.......................................... 171<br />

25:34-40 .................................... 375<br />

25:35, 36 ................................... 465<br />

25:40.......................................... 376<br />

27:44.......................................... 186<br />

Mark<br />

14:71.......................................... 177<br />

15:32.......................................... 186<br />

Luke<br />

7:29 ............................................ 207<br />

8:29 ............................................ 208<br />

12:15.......................................... 308<br />

12:19.......................................... 308<br />

12:21.......................................... 308<br />

15:22.......................................... 352<br />

18:3 ............................................ 420<br />

18:11.......................................... 226<br />

18:18-23 .................................... 188<br />

22:29.......................................... 360<br />

22:32.......................................... 319<br />

John<br />

1:12 ............................................ 252<br />

3:36 ............................................ 469<br />

5:25 ............................................ 453<br />

6:37 ............................................ 450<br />

10:26.......................................... 108<br />

10:28, 29 ................................... 314<br />

11:42.......................................... 319<br />

14:19.......................................... 453<br />

15:3 ............................................ 283<br />

15:5 ............................................ 469<br />

15:25.......................................... 216<br />

15:26.......................................... 353<br />

16:14.......................................... 353<br />

17:1, 5 ....................................... 325<br />

17:11, 15 ................................... 319<br />

17:17.......................................... 283<br />

17:19.......................................... 283<br />

17:20.......................................... 319<br />

Acts<br />

13:38-39 .................................... 207<br />

13:48.......................................... 107<br />

15:11.......................................... 431<br />

Romans<br />

1:7 .............................................. 226<br />

1:17 .......................... 252, 353, 470<br />

2:13 ............................................ 208<br />

3:4 ..................................... 207, 208<br />

3:8, 31 ....................................... 248<br />

3:20 .......................... 220, 225, 397<br />

3:21 ............................................ 209<br />

3:22 ............................................ 226<br />

3:24 ............................................ 215<br />

3:26-28 ...................................... 225<br />

3:28 ............................................ 255<br />

3:31 ............................................ 484<br />

4:2, 3, 22-24 ............................. 238<br />

4:4 .............................................. 233<br />

4:4, 16 ......................................... 87<br />

4:5 ..................................... 255, 470<br />

4:5-8 .......................................... 239<br />

4:5, 16 ....................................... 356


4:6-8 .......................................... 424<br />

4:13-16 ...................................... 224<br />

4:14 ............................................ 222<br />

4:15 ............................................ 221<br />

5:2 .............................................. 382<br />

5:17 ................................... 251, 252<br />

5:18 ............................................ 208<br />

5:18, 19 ..................................... 245<br />

5:20 ............................................ 221<br />

6:1, 15 ....................................... 248<br />

6:14 ............................................ 289<br />

6:17 ............................................ 284<br />

7:1-4, 6 ...................................... 444<br />

7:4 ............................ 411, 451, 467<br />

7:6 .............................................. 468<br />

7:7 .............................................. 225<br />

7:9 ..................................... 399, 414<br />

7:22 ............................................ 478<br />

8:3 .............................................. 398<br />

8:7 .............................................. 469<br />

8:17 ............................................ 267<br />

8:30 ............................................ 107<br />

8:30, 33, 34 ............................... 208<br />

8:33 ............................................ 173<br />

8:38, 39 ..................................... 313<br />

9:2, 3.......................................... 435<br />

9:11, 19 ..................................... 121<br />

9:15 ............................................ 432<br />

9:15, 16 ..................................... 106<br />

9:31 ............................................ 435<br />

9:31, 32 ............................ 382, 436<br />

9:33 ............................................ 436<br />

10:1 ............................................ 435<br />

10:2 ............................................ 435<br />

10:2, 3 ....................................... 382<br />

10:3 ............................................ 352<br />

10:3, 4 ....................................... 437<br />

10:4 ................................... 426, 448<br />

10:5-9 ........................................ 356<br />

11:6 ..................................... 88, 255<br />

12:1 ............................................ 289<br />

13:8-10 ...................................... 479<br />

14:5 ............................................ 426<br />

1 Corinthians<br />

1:8 .............................................. 314<br />

1:29, 31 ....................................... 64<br />

1:30 ............................................ 251<br />

2:12 ............................................ 353<br />

3:16, 17 ..................................... 290<br />

3:22 ............................................ 361<br />

6:9, 10 ....................................... 307<br />

6:17 ............................................ 320<br />

11:32................................. 291, 322<br />

16:22.......................................... 287<br />

2 Corinthians<br />

3:5, 7.......................................... 399<br />

3:6, 7.......................................... 445<br />

3:9 .............................................. 251<br />

5:14 ............................................ 296<br />

5:21 .......................... 103, 251, 352<br />

7:1 .............................................. 290<br />

8:23 ............................................ 319<br />

Galatians<br />

1:6 ..................................... 393, 394<br />

1:8, 9.......................................... 394<br />

2:15, 16 ..................................... 426<br />

2:16 .......................... 220, 255, 397<br />

2:19 ................................... 391, 411<br />

2:20 ................................... 453, 470<br />

2:21 ................................... 222, 394<br />

3:1 .............................................. 391<br />

3:6-9 .......................................... 238<br />

3:10 .................. 221, 394, 448, 468<br />

3:11, 12 ..................................... 222<br />

3:12, 18 ..................................... 356<br />

3:13 ................................... 103, 341<br />

3:15 ............................................ 408<br />

4:16 ............................................ 394<br />

4:19 ............................................ 391


Scripture Index<br />

5:2, 4................................. 384, 410<br />

5:3 .............................................. 394<br />

5:7 .............................................. 392<br />

5:13-14 ...................................... 480<br />

Ephesians<br />

1:3 .............................................. 433<br />

1:3, 4.......................................... 105<br />

1:4 .............................................. 107<br />

1:6 ..................................... 251, 430<br />

1:22, 23 ..................................... 319<br />

2:3 ..................................... 401, 469<br />

2:6, 7.......................................... 182<br />

2:7-10 ........................................ 295<br />

2:8, 9.......................... 87, 225, 255<br />

2:8-10 ........................................ 232<br />

2:12 ............................................ 235<br />

3:8 .............................................. 392<br />

3:10 ............................................ 379<br />

3:17 ............................................ 441<br />

4:24 ............................................ 283<br />

4:30 ............................................ 290<br />

5:1 .............................................. 290<br />

5:5 .............................................. 307<br />

5:27 ................................... 380, 449<br />

6:1, 2.......................................... 480<br />

Philippians<br />

2:6, 8.......................................... 341<br />

2:13 ............................................ 470<br />

2:15 ............................................ 290<br />

3:1, 2.......................................... 430<br />

3:4 .............................................. 428<br />

3:8, 9.......................................... 429<br />

3:9 ..................................... 226, 232<br />

3:12 ............................................ 428<br />

3:18 ............................................ 462<br />

3:19 ............................................ 462<br />

3:21 ............................................ 373<br />

4:4 .............................................. 449<br />

Colossians<br />

1:21 ............................................ 469<br />

1:22 ................................... 446, 449<br />

2:7 .............................................. 441<br />

2:10 ............................................ 251<br />

2:16 ............................................ 252<br />

3:3, 4.......................................... 320<br />

3:4 .............................................. 371<br />

3:5 .............................................. 307<br />

3:12-14 ...................................... 285<br />

2 Thessalonians<br />

2:13 ............................................ 283<br />

3:3 .............................................. 316<br />

1 Timothy<br />

1:9 .............................................. 433<br />

1:15 ................................... 182, 392<br />

3:16 ............................................ 207<br />

6:9, 10 ....................................... 309<br />

2 Timothy<br />

1:9 .............................. 87, 105, 108<br />

1:12 ............................................ 371<br />

3:14 ............................................ 462<br />

4:8 .............................................. 371<br />

4:18 ............................................ 314<br />

Titus<br />

1:15 ............................................ 470<br />

2:11, 12 ..................................... 296<br />

3:5 .............................................. 255<br />

Hebrews<br />

2:11 ............................................ 331<br />

2:18 ............................................ 349<br />

4:15 ............................................ 349<br />

5:13 ............................................ 251<br />

6:17 ............................................ 121<br />

6:18 ............................................ 422


8:10-12 ...................................... 235<br />

8:12 ............................................ 203<br />

10:38.......................................... 470<br />

11:6 ............................................ 470<br />

11:8 ............................................ 237<br />

12:5-11 ...................................... 291<br />

13:5 ................................... 309, 314<br />

James<br />

1:17 ............................................ 121<br />

2:8 .............................................. 481<br />

2:10 ............................................ 221<br />

2:21-25 ...................................... 237<br />

3:13 ............................................ 391<br />

4:4 .............................................. 462<br />

1 Peter<br />

1:2 .............................................. 283<br />

1:2-4 .......................................... 313<br />

1:3, 5.......................................... 382<br />

1:9 .............................................. 470<br />

1:12 ............................................ 379<br />

2:2 .............................................. 458<br />

2:9 .............................................. 285<br />

5:4 .............................................. 371<br />

2 Peter<br />

1:1 .............................................. 252<br />

1:4 .............................................. 290<br />

2:3 .............................................. 407<br />

1 John<br />

1:7 .............................................. 171<br />

3:2 .............................................. 374<br />

3:3 .............................................. 382<br />

Revelation<br />

1:5 .............................................. 171<br />

19:8 ............................................ 352<br />

20:11.......................................... 374<br />

21:9 ............................................ 380

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