THE

PRIMITIVE DOCTRINE

OF

ELECTION;

OR

AN HISTORICAL INQUIRY

INTO THE

IDEALITY AND CAUSATION OF SCRIPTURAL ELECTION,

AS RECEIVED AND MAINTAINED IN

THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH OF CHRIST.

BY GEORGE STANLEY FABER, B. D.

MASTER OF SHERBURN HOSPITAL AND PREBENDARY OF SALISBURY.

AUTHOR OF DIFFICULTIES ROMANISM," "DIFFICULTIES OF INFIDELITY," ETC.

Id esse dominicum et verum, quod sit prius traditum: id autem extraneum et falsum,
quod sit posterius immissum. Tertull. de Præscript. adv. Hær. § 11. Oper. p. 107.

TRE NEW Y PUBLIC LIRLAK

ANTI

PRINTED BY J. P. WRIGHT,

18 New street, N. Y.

TO THE MEMORY OF

THE RIGHT REVEREND FATHER IN GOD,

WILLIAM VAN MILDERT, S. T. P.,

LATE LORD BISHOP OF DURHAM :

A MAN, WHOM TO KNOW WAS TO LOVE;

A DIVINE, WHOM TO CONVERSE WITH WAS TO BE INSTRUCTED;

A PRELATE, WHOM TO CONSULT WAS TO BE PRIVILEGED:

THIS WORK,

A LAST TOKEN OF GRATEFUL VENERATION,

MOURNFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY, IS INSCRIBED AND DEDICATED,

BY ITS AUTHOR.