BEING THE

JUDGMENT

OF THE ANCIENT

Christian Church,

OR THE

SENSE of the CHRISTIAN WRITERS
of the firft Four Centuries after CHRI
and before Austin,

RIST

PUBLIC

The PERSEVERANCE OF Y

the SAINTS,

And,

The CASE of the HEA-.

THENS.

Wherein alfo are confidered,

The TESTIMONIES in favour of the Univerfal
Scheme, produced by Gerardus Voffius, Monfieur Daille,
and Dr. Whitby.

PART IV.

By JOHN GILL.

LONDON:

Printed for, and Sold by AARON WARD, at the King's
Arms in Little Britain. M.DCC.XXXVIII,

THE

CAUSE

OF

GOD and TRUTH.

The INTRODUCTION.

S

SINCE those doctrines which are commonly called Calviniftical are charged with novelty, and are reprefented as running directly contrary to the whole ftream of antiquity, and the fentiments of the antient Fathers, and as entirely unknown to the Chriftian church before the time of Austin; when, on the other hand, the doctrines of the univerfal fcheme are faid to be confirmed by the concurrent fuffrage of all antiquity, and the

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exprefs