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The Hope Of Arminianism

The hope of Arminianism seems to me to differ much from the hope of the gospel, because it allows that Christ died for all men. But Christ declares that the gates which lead to destruction receive the greatest number, (Matthew 7:13). Therefore, if the former be true, some are in hell for whom Christ died; [...]

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William Huntington

Life of the Author

I was born in the Weald of Kent, as is related in the sequel of this narrative. My father was a day-labouring man, who worked for seven or eight shillings in the winter, and in the summer for nine shillings per week, which is but a small pittance to keep a family. [...]

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The Coalheaver’s Confession

I BELIEVE, that every man who is enlightened to see the fellowship of the gospel mystery, enabled to receive it in the love of it, who is blessed with enlargement of heart, access to God, and freedom with him in prayer, is delivered from the yoke and bondage of Moses’s law, in every sense of [...]

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The Excellencies Of The Bible

“Search the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life, and they are they which testify of Me.”
(John 5:39)
I. I have sometimes thought that a Nation must be truly BLESSED if it were governed by no other laws than those of that blessed Book (Deuteronomy 4:5-6). It is so complete a [...]

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The Believer’s Rule Of Life

The Believer’s Rule Of Life
By William Huntington
Condensed from “The Rule and Riddle.” Published in 1811 by T. Bensley, London
PREFACE
WILLIAM HUNTINGTON was born on February 2,1745, near Cranbrook, Kent, England. He died on July 1, 1813, in his sixty-ninth year. Of Huntington’s description of his sweet blessed deliverance into gospel liberty, J. C. Philpot says: “We [...]

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