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Title:  An end to discord wherein is demonstrated that no doctrinal controversy remains between the Presbyterian and Congregational ministers fit to justify longer divisions : with a true account of Socinianism as to the satisfaction of Christ / by Daniel Williams.
Author: Williams, Daniel, 1643?-1716.
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things being thus, and so very apparently the Indications of governing Methods, and the Aptitude of our Ministry for Conversion and Perseverance so much depending upon the affecting of Mens hopes and fears; we are forced to own that the Gospel is not only a description of the foresaid Order, but that it is a Law of Grace subordinate to the Co∣venant of Redemption.Yet that none may suspect the difference above what it is, I shall recite what our Brethren grant in their Declaration. They say, p. 13. We are true Owners of Iustifica∣tion at the instant when we believe. P. 15. It must be said that even in foro Dei, in God's Court, and according to the Iudgment in that open Court which God hath set up in his Word; and according to the Proceedings of his Word (which is the Rule he professeth to judg Men by, and therein he keeps to the Rule of his Word; as Christ saith, I judg no Man, but the Word that I speak shall judg you, Ioh. 12. 47, 48.) God doth judg▪ and pronounce his Elect ungodly and unjustified till they believe. All these are the words of Dr. Goodwin, which they ap∣prove of, and note that he in vol. 2. of the Creatures, lib. 2. cap. 7. p. 51, to 63. proves at large, that Faith in Christ is of another kind than the Faith required by the Law of Works. They also say, p. 46. God in the Covenant of Grace freely offereth unto Sin∣ners Life and Salvation by Iesus Christ, re∣quiring of them▪ Faith in him that they may be saved. Note the Assembly of Divines in Westminsier, larger Catech. Q. 32. add0