Modern Question
Modern Question [1]
Mr. Fuller, holding that it is both, published The Gospel worthy of all Acceptation, or the Duty of all Men to Believe In Jesus Christ. "The leading design of this performance (say Mr. Morris) is to prove that men are under indispensable obligations to believe ‘ whatever God says, and to do whatever he commands; and a Saviour being revealed in the Gospel, the law in effect requires those to whom he is made known to believe in him, seeing it insist upon obedience to the whole will of God; that the inability of man to comply with the divine requirements is wholly of a moral nature, and consists in the prevalence of an evil disposition, which, being voluntary, is in the highest degree criminal." On this subject Mr. Fuller was attacked by Mr. Button, a supralapsarian, on the one hand, and by Mr. Daniel Taylor, an Arminian on the other; to whom he replied by A Defence of his former tract, and this ended the controversy. The late Mr. Robinson shrewdly remarks that those ministers who will not use applications, lest they should rob the Holy Spirit of the honor of applying the Word, should, for the same reason, not use explications, lest they should deprive him of the honor of illustrating it. See Ryland, Life of Fuller, pages 6-11; Morris, Life of Fuller, chapter 2; Wilson, Dissenting Churches, 2:572; Ivimey, English Baptists, 3:262. (See Salvation).
