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40.
The former authorities on this subject I had quoted from the Gospel according to St.Luke: that Gospel most positively and most solemnly declares the 'repentance' of sinners to be the 'condition' on which 'alone' salvation can be obtained.

But the doctors of the new divinity 'deny' this: they tell us distinctly 'it cannot' be.

For the future, the Gospel according to Calvin must be received as the truth.

Sinners will certainly prefer it as the more comfortable of the two beyond all comparison.
Mercy! but only to read Calvin's account of that repentance, without which there is no sign of election, and to call it "the more comfortable of the two ?" The very term by which the German New-Birthites express it is enough to give one goose-flesh--'das Herzknirschen'-- the very heart crashed between the teeth of a lock-jaw'd agony! Ib.
What is 'faith'?
Is it not a conviction produced in the mind by adequate testimony?
No! that is not the meaning of faith in the Gospel, nor indeed anywhere else.