Produced by Keith G Richardson CALVINISTIC CONTROVERSY: EMBRACING A SERMON ON PREDESTINATION AND ELECTION, AND SEVERAL NUMBERS, FORMERLY PUBLISHED IN THE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE AND JOURNAL. BY REV. WILBUR FISK, D. D. NEW-YORK, PUBLISHED BY B. WAUGH AND T. MASON, For the Methodist Episcopal Church at the Conference Office, 200 Mulberry-street. _J. Collord, Printer_. 1835. "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1835, by B. Waugh and T. Mason, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New-York." CONTENTS. Advertisement Sermon on Predestination and Election I. Reply to the Christian Spectator II. A proposition to Calvinists III. Indefiniteness of Calvinism IV. Brief sketch of the past changes and present state of Calvinism in this country V. Same subject continued VI. Predestination VII. Predestination, continued VIII. Moral agency and accountability IX. Moral agency and accountability, continued X. Moral agency as affected by the fall, and the subsequent provisions of grace XI. Same subject continued XII. Objections to gracious ability answered XIII. Regeneration XIV. Regeneration, continued XV. Regeneration, continued ADVERTISEMENT. The numbers following the sermon on predestination and election, were written at different times, and in some instances at quite distant intervals from each other. This will be received, it is hoped, as an apology for any want of connection or uniformity of style, which the reader may notice. And if any farther apology be necessary, it may be found in the fact, that the entire contents of the volume as it is now presented, were written in the midst of other pressing duties.--And the same reason has prevented my giving the work such a thorough revision, as it should have had, before it was presented to the public, in the more set and imposing form of a book. Such a form was not originally thought of--and now that this is called for, the author is well aware that the public might expect a careful revision and correction of the whole. From this however, he must, of _necessity_, be excused. He has been able to do little more than correct the typographical errors. If the public have it, therefore, it must go "with all its imperfections on its head." Only let it be understood, that _I do not send it out_. The publishers say it is called for; and I consent that it may go. The doctrines I believe, will stand the test of reason and Scripture, although some of the arguments by which they are defended may be found defective.