The Graves-Ditzler, Or, Great Carrollton Debate (Volume 6); Final Perseverance

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876. Excerpt: ... begun a good work in their hearts. He certainly left them not to perish. "Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.'--Phil, i, 6. And then you sing from your hymn book--'Thy saints in all this glorious war Shall conquer tho' they die.".; And this "His glory shn!! bring up the rear, And perfect what hte grace begun." If they were once Christians and finally lost, both the TV ord of God and your Hymn Book teach falsely. But, 2. They may have been Christians and fallen into erroneous doctrine, for which Paul excluded them, and exclusion and possibly the infliction of bodily ills, have been all Paul meant by delivering them to Satan. (See 1 Cor. v, 5) and yet this incestuous man was subsequently restored to the fellowship of the church. See 2 Cor. ii, 6. 3. These men might have been false professors, who, as such are in our day wont to, assumed leadership in the church, whom Paul had put away. Upon which supposition the declaration of 1 John, ii, 19, covers their cases and all other apparent apostates, for they being false teachers, were of Anti-Christ. "They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had beenof us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us."--1 John, ii, 19. And this language of Peter sufficiently explains the many apparent apostasies to be only a falling for the want of grace, falling from a mere profession of grace enjoyed. "But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and, the sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire."--2 Peter, ii, 22. If one of those apostate characters should claim that they we...