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Salvation to the believing party, must depend upon the use made of the means vouchsafed for that purpose. Again, having observed that Christ has only placed man in a salvable condition, the clergy, he says, feel themselves called upon to enforce obedience to the moral law, as necessary to the accomplishment of the Christian scheme; necessary to bring fallen man into a state of acceptance with God, by qualifying him for the Salvation which has been purchased. Works, he says again, should be pressed upon Christians at all times, as the condition upon which they are taught to look for Salvation; and on another occasion, They (that is, Works) will be considerations on account of which God will be pleased to accept a fallen, condemned, though at the same time repentant and obedient sinner, for the sake of what an all-gracious Saviour has done and suffered for him."

My object in making this quotation, is not so much to defend Mr. Daubeny, who has fully and unanswerably vindicated himself against the attacks of this writer, as to shew the contemptuous manner in which the Evangelical clergy speak of their brethren of the Establishment, who "feel themselves called upon to enforce obedience to the moral law, as necessary to the accomplishment of the Christian scheme," and who teach their congregations

congregations that "Works are the condition of Salvation;" and that "they will be considerations on account of which God will be pleased to accept a fallen, condemned, though at the same time repentant and obedient sinner, for the sake of what an all-gracious Saviour has done and suffered for him." However, that these are the genuine doctrines of Scripture, the following texts will sufficiently prove: "Moreover, brethren," says St. Paul to the Corinthians, "I declare unto you the Gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain (e);" St. Paul therefore tells his Christian converts, that their Faith might or might not be the means of their Salvation; and consequently it only placed them "in a state of possible Salvation," in a "salvable condition;" and whether this state of possible Salvation should become a state of actual Salvation, depended upon their "keeping in memory what the Apostle had preached unto them," that is, in St. Paul's words, in the same chapter, upon their being "stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord; forasmuch as they knew that their labour was not in vain in the Lord :"

(e) 1 Cor. c. 15. v. 1 & 2,

Lord (f)" "He that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him (g);" "Let no nian deceive you. He that doeth righteousness, is righteous (h);" "Work out your own Salvation with fear and trembling (i);" "Whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed (k);' "Every man shall receive his own reward, according to his own labour (1);" "Every one of us shall give account of himself to God (m);" "Who will render to every man according to his deeds (n);" "All that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation (o);" "The Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father, with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works (p);""For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ, that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad (q);" "Behold,

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Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be (r):" And our Saviour, in his awful description of the proceedings of the last judgment, not only assigns eternal life to those who have performed acts of mercy to their fellow-creatures, but expressly on account of those acts; "Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat.. .. Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me (s)." Is it possible to read these passages of the New Testament, and to deny, that "Works are clearly made the grand hinge on which our Justification (that is, continuance in a state of Justification) and Salvation turn;" and not to be astonished that any person professing belief in the divine authority of the Scriptures, himself a minister of the Gospel, should with marked severity inveigh against those teachers, who make "Works the grand turning point in the matter of our Salvation?" It cannot be necessary to dwell upon this subject; and I shall only observe, that this author confounds Justification and Salvation throughout his work, which I have proved not to be synony mous terms, either in the Apostolical Epistles when

(r) Rev. c. 22. v. 12. (s) Matt. c. 25. v. 34,&c.

when applied to Christians, or in the Public Formularies of our Church; and that he is guilty of a variety of mistatements and misrepresentations, by not distinguishing between the meritorious cause of our Salvation, and the conditions required to be performed on our part "in order to obtain pardon and acceptance with God." These conditions may be indispensable, and yet utterly destitute of merit; giving no claim from their own nature to the inestimable blessing of eternal happiness, but deriving all their efficacy and value from the merciful appointment of God, through the merits of Christ.

But Calvinistic ministers, with all their zeal to support the doctrine of Salvation through Faith alone, and all their anxiety to depreciate the importance of moral virtue, cannot avoid the inconsistency of allowing that "Good Works will.... be rewarded; that they are acceptable to God in Christ; absolutely requisite in order to our meetness for God's service and heaven," and that they will "fix the degrees of our blessedness in eternity (t);" although they will not acknowledge Good Works to be a condition of Salvation. If Good Works be not a condition of Salvation, Salvation may be attained without them; but it is acknowledged that a man cannot be meet for heaven

(t) True Churchmen ascertained, p. 291, &c.

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