REFUTATION

OF THE DOCTRINE

OF

UNCONDITIONAL PERSEVERANCE :

IN A DISCOURSE ON HEBREWS II. 3.

BY THOMAS OLIVERS.

ake heed, brethren, lest there be in any of
fou an evil heart of unbelief, in departing
From the living God. HEB. III. 12.

New-York:

PUBLISHED BY J. SOULE AND T. MASON, FOR
THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
IN THE UNITED STATES.

J. C. Totten, printer.

1818.

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BREFATORY

DEDICATION,

TO THE

REV. JOHN WESLEY, A. M.
Late Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford.

SIR,

As God has made you the first instrument in the present revival of religion in these lands, whereby so many thousands have been turned from the evil of their way; as you have laboured, in carrying on this work, for the long space of upwards of sixty years, and with a degree of zeal, diligence, and fortitude, unknown since the days of the apostles and as you still continue your mighty labours, without the least abatement, though you are now in the eighty-eighth (or as some say, in the ninetieth) year of your age! and especially, as you have always been e great patron of every doctrine of universal grace, and among the rest,

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