Donald John MacLean is Research Supervisor at Wales Evangelical School of Theology and Visiting Lecturer at City University in London.

Cover 1
Title Page 4
Copyright 5
Table of Contents 6
Body 8
List of Abbreviations 8
Introduction 12
Chapter One: The Free Offer of the Gospel in Reformed Theology and Creeds 20
The Free Offer in Early Seventeenth-Century Reformed Creeds 22
William Ames (1576–1633) 38
John Ball (1585–1640) 41
The Westminster Assembly and the “Free Offer” 44
Scotland and the Free Offer before Durham 57
Conclusion 62
Chapter Two: James Durham: Life, Writings and Theology 64
James Durham's Life and Times 64
Durham's Writings 76
Durham's Significance 79
Durham's Theology 83
Conclusion 126
Chapter Three: James Durham and the Free Offer of the Gospel 128
Preaching and Covenant Theology: The Context of the Gospel Offer 128
The Free Offer in the Theology of Durham 130
The Rejection of the Offer 155
Objections to the Gospel Offer 156
The Free Offer in Durham's Preaching 159
Conclusion 173
Chapter Four: Durham's Contemporaries and the Free Offer 174
Contemporary Challenges to the Gospel Offer 175
Obadiah Sedgwick (1599/1600–1658) 179
Thomas Manton (1620–1677) 198
David Dickson (1583–1662) 215
Samuel Rutherford (1600–1661) 229
Durham, His Contemporaries, and the Confessional Doctrine of the Free Offer 256
Chapter Five: Later Controversies concerning the Free Offer of the Gospel 260
Of Marrows and Men: The Free Offer in Early Eighteenth-Century Scotland 261
The New World, Old Controversies 271
Hoeksema, the Christian Reformed Church and the Free Offer 275
Conclusion 284
Conclusion 286
Bibliography 296
Index of proper names 314