f the Pelagian doctrine on this point is given by
Wiggers, and yet we suppose that both authors are in the right. The
truth seems to me, that Pelagius, as usually happens to those who
take one-sided views of the truth, has asserted contradictory
positions.

136 The way of Life, chap. iii, sec. ii.

137 Knapp's Theology, vol. ii, p. 471. Note by the translator.

138 Institutes, b. iii, ch. xxiv.

139 Ibid.

140 Essais de Theodicee.

141 Cudworth's Intellectual System.

142 Starkie on Evidence.

143 Theodicee.

144 See Chapter III.

145 Compare Chap. III.

146 Intellectual System, vol. ii, p. 328.

147 Id., vol. ii, p. 149.

148 Cudworth's Intellectual System, vol. ii, p. 338.

149 Dwight's Sermons, vol. i, pp. 254-412. Dick's Lec., p. 248.

150 Witherspoon, as quoted in "New and Old Theology," issued by the
Presbyterian Board of Publication.

151 D'Aubigne's History of the Reformation, book xiii.

152 Old and New Theology, p. 38.

153 The writer here speaks from personal experience.

154 Old and New Theology, p. 40.

155 Pensees, I. Partie, art. iv, sec. vii.

156 Old and New Theology.

157 Examination of Edwards on the Will.

158 Theology, vol. i, p. 358.

159 Ibid.

160 Butler's Analogy, part i, chap. ii.

161 Robert Hall, a profound admirer of Howe, has pronounced his attempt
to reconcile the sincerity of God with the universal offer of
salvation, to be one of his great master-pieces of thought and
reasoning.

162 Hagenbach's History of Doctrines, vol. ii, p. 259.

163 Institutes, book iii, chap. xxiv, sec. xvii.

164 Institutes, book iii, chap. xxiv, sec. xvi.

165 Id., sec. xiii.

166 We do not intend to investigate the subject of a limited atonement
in the present work, because it is merely a metaphysical off-shoot
from the doctrine of election and reprobation, and must stand or
fall with the parent trunk. The strength of this we purpose to try
in a subsequent chapter.

167 Lectures on Theology, vol. i, p. 458.

168 Lectures on Theology, p. 458.

169 Edwards's Works, vol. ii, p. 548.

170 Edwards on Original Sin, part iv, chap. iii, p. 543.

171 Encheir., c. 46, 47. See also remarks by the American editor and
translator.

172 See p. 284.

173 If God, out of the abundance of his compassion, imputes the sins of