Into temptation's poifoned air,
O never let us ftray!

Guard us from evil by thy care,
Along life's dangerous way.

Thine is the kingdom, Lord, by right,
Unbounded and fupreme,
And thine the all-fuflaining might,
And glory's peerless beam.

Thefe are for ever thine, in fongs
Heaven's blissful myriads cry;
Thefe are for ever thine, our tongues
In humble notes reply.

A SHORT HY M N.

Titus ii. 14. He gave himfelf for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity.

IS this muft banish my complaints,

"TIS

Muft make an end of fin in me,
I grant it the faint-hearted faints,

That only death can fet me free:
But whofe fhall purge my inbred stain?
The death of God, and not of man.
Believing the pure fountain flowed,

To make my life and nature clean,
I feek redemption in thy blood,

From outward and from inward fin,
Whoe'er expect it from their own,
Jefus, I trust thy death alone.

4.

JOHANNESBOGERMAN.

THE

Arminian Magazine,

For MARCH 1782.

Of FREE-WILL: tranflated from SEBASTIAN CASTELLIO'S Dialogues, between Lewis and Frederic.

DI A L O GUE

Lewis.

You

III.

YOU fhewed me many things yefterday, which I did not know before. And therefore I hope to learn fomething to day likewife. Fred. Yefterday our whole Converfation turned, on the duty of God to man (if I may fo fpeak). But the knowledge of this we know what is our duty to God. shall know our own duty to day, if we difcourfe of the Will

and Freedom of Man.

know what we are able,

does us no good, unless Lewis. But I truft we

For this being cleared up, we fhalleither to will or to perform. Fred.

Be it fo. I then ask first, Would you have us difpute of the

Will, or the Freedom of Man? fame? Fred. By no means. VOL. V.

P

Lewis. Are they not the For Freedom or Liberty is a

Power

Power of doing what we will. So when I fay, "I am at liberty in this," it means, I can do as I will herein. Now would you have me fpeak of the Will of man, or of his Liberty? Lewis. If you please, of both.

Fred. Let us then enquire, firft, What man is able to will: next, What he does will: and laftly, What his Will can effect. Lewis. Agreed. Fred. But give me leave to take the matter a little higher. And firft, I obferve, God willeth all men to be faved. I repeat this, though I obferved it before, because the whole controverfy turns upon it. That he created Adam to be faved, cannot be doubted, fince he created him. in his own image. And we proved yesterday that all the feed of Adam were, like him, created for falvation; whence it follows, that if any are ordained to punishment, it is only because of their fin. This appears from what God faid to Adam, "If thou eatest thereof, thou shalt die." Now, fince by one man fin entered into the world, and death by fin, and fo death paffed upon all men, as all had finned: the queftion is, Whether God willeth all men to be healed? I anfwer, It is his will. For the fame fatherly Love which induced him to create a child unto Health, muft make him willing to heal him when fick. Nor is there any among us fo wicked, as not to be willing that all his fick children fhould, if poffible, be cured. But if we that are evil do this, what fhall the good God do! And if we have from God, this fatherly mind towards our Children, how much more muft God himself have it? Can any Good be in man, but the fame must be in God, in an infinitely higher degree? Can a mother, faith he, forget her child? She may. Yet will I not forget thee. "But he fpeaks this of the Jews." What then? Is he the God of the Jews only, and not of the Gentiles alfo? Yea, he is the God and Father of all men. And therefore he fent his Son,

to call them all.