THE CALVINISTIC DOCTRINE OF PREDESTINATION EXAMINED AND REFUTED: BEING THE SUBSTANCE OF A SERIES OF DISCOURSES Delivered in St. George's M. E. Church, Philadelphia, BY FRANCIS HODGSON, D. D. PHILADELPHIA: HIGGINS AND PERKINPINE. No. 40 NORTH FOURTH STREET, 1855. Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by FRANCIS HODGSON, in the Office of the Clerk of the District Court of the United States in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. PHILADELPHIA: T. R. AND P. G. COLLINS, PRINTERS. PHILADELPHIA, July 13, 1854. Rev. FRANCIS HODGSON, D. D. DEAR SIR: We, whose names are hereunto annexed, having heard your recent series of discourses upon the "Divine Decrees," and believing that their publication at this time would be of great service to the cause of truth, earnestly desire that such measures may be taken as will secure their publication at an early period. We therefore respectfully solicit your concurrence, and that you would do whatever may be necessary on your part to further our object:-- JAMES B. LONGACRE, P. D. MYERS, GARRET VANZANT, R. MCCAMBRIDGE, JOHN J. HARE, THOMAS W. PRICE, DANIEL BREWSTER, CHAS. MCNICHOL, WM. G. ECKHARDT, THOS. M. ADAMS, CHAS. COYLE, FRANCIS A. FARROW, BENJAMIN HERITAGE, THOS. HARE, J. O. CAMPBELL, SAMUEL HUDSON, JAMES HARRIS, JOSEPH THOMPSON, WM. GOODHART, DAVID DAILEY, R. O. SIMONS, JNO. R. MORRISON, AMOS HORNING, JAMES HUEY, ENOS S. KERN, JOHN FRY, JNO. P. WALKER, E. A. SMITH, JOHN STREET, JAMES D. SIMKINS, J. W. BUTCHER, S. W. STOCKTON, JACOB HENDRICK, FOSTER PRITCHETT. DEAR BRETHREN:-- The motives which induced me to preach the discourses on the "Divine Decrees" are equally decisive in favor of their publication, as you propose. I have taken the liberty to rearrange some parts of them for the benefit of the reader. Yours, FRANCIS HODGSON. To Brothers LONGACRE, MYERS, and others. PREDESTINATION. DISCOURSE I. "In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will."--EPH. i. 11.