The Hope Of Arminianism

By William Huntington

 
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; in which case there must have been a deficiency in the price the Surety paid, or else it reflects on his wisdom, and supposes him outwitted by the serpent, who, through his subtlety, has got legions in his possession, which were the Saviour’s own by purchase. It does not reflect on his wisdom only, but on his power also, who could not hold them that were committed unto him; because the gates of hell have prevailed, and many are plucked out of his hand, (John, 10:28).
 
It seems likewise to reflect cruelly on the justice of God, who drew his sword, and sheathed it in the great Shepherd, (Zechariah 8:7); and spared him not in the least, nor abated one mite of the debt, (Romans 8:32).
 
And it is plain that Justice promised, by the blood of his covenant, to send “forth the prisoners out of the pit in which there was no water,” (Zechariah. 9:11); and further, to be “faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness,” (1 John 1:9).
 
But alas! this is all overthrown if Arminianism be true.
 
If Arminian hope be fixed on a surety that hath not paid, or cannot pay the debt; or, if it be fixed on a mutable Saviour, having no laws to encourage it but such as demand a debt twice; first of the surety, and then of the debtor; first sending them out of the prison of sin on the surety’s account, or, in their own words, making them sons of God by grace to-day, and after all this letting them fall away, and locking them up in hell to all eternity, until they can pay the utmost mite of what was paid long ago; what establishment is there for hope?
 
I answer, a hope founded on such doctrines is just as stable as a feather in a whirlwind.
 

SOURCE: https://arminianheresy.blogspot.com/2011/10/hope-of-arminianism.html

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