"Pay to A.B.

'or order'." Once assume merits, and I defy you to keep out supererogation and the old 'Monte di Pieta'.
Ib.p.

97.
-- and from thence occasion is taken to defame all those who strive to prepare themselves, during this their state of trial, for that judgment which they must undergo at that day, when they will receive either reward or punishment, according as they shall be found to have 'merited' the one, or 'deserved' the other.
Can the Barrister have read the New Testament?
Or does he know it only by quotations?
Ib.
-- a swarm of new Evangelists who are every where teaching the people that no reliance is to be placed on holiness of life as a ground of future acceptance.
I am weary of repeating that this is false.

It is only denied that mere acts, not proceeding from faith, are or can be holiness.

As surely (would the Methodist say) as the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Son, so surely does sanctification from redemption, and not vice versa,--much less from self-sanctifiedness, that ostrich with its head in the sand, and the plucked rump of its merits staring on the divine [Greek: Atae] 'venatrix'! Ib.p.