etting
aside the free grace of God."

"Quite the contrary: so far from setting it aside, it is the way to
glorify it, for it is by that grace alone that we are enabled to perform
right actions. For myself, I always find it difficult to answer persons,
who, in flying to one extreme, think they can not too much degrade the
opposite. If we give faith its due prominence, the mere moralist
reprobates our principles as if we were depreciating works. If we
magnify the beauty of holiness, the advocate for exclusive faith accuses
us of being its enemy."

"For my own part, I am persuaded that unqualified trust is the only
ground of safety."

"He who can not lie has indeed told us so. But trust in God is humble
dependence, not presumptuous security. The Bible does not say, trust in
the Lord and sin on, but 'trust in the Lord, and be doing good.' We are
elsewhere told that, 'God works in us to will and to do.' There is no
getting over that little word to _do_. I suppose you allow the necessity
of prayer."

"Certainly I do."

"But there are conditions to our prayers also: 'if I regard iniquity in
my heart the Lord will not hear me.'"

"The Scriptures affirm that we must live on the promises."

"They are indeed the very aliment of the Christian life. But what are
the promises?"

"Free pardon and eternal life to them that are in Christ Jesus."

"True. But who are they that _are_ in Christ Jesus? The apostle tells
us, 'they who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit.' Besides,
is not holiness promised as well as pardon? 'A new heart will I give
you, and a new spirit will I put within you.'"

"Surely, Stanley, you abuse the grace of the gospel, by pretending that
man is saved by his own righteousness."

"No, no, my dear Tyrrel, it is you who abuse it, by making God's mercy
set aside man's duty. Allow me to observe, that he who exalts the grace
of God with a view to indulge himself in any sin, is deceiving no one
but himself; and he who trusts in Christ, with a view to spare himself
the necessity of watchfulness, humility, and self-denial, that man
depends upon Christ for more than he has promised."

"Well, Mr. Stanley, it appears to me that you want to patch up a
convenient accommodating religion, as if Christ were to do a little, and
we were to do the rest; a sort of partnership salvation, and in which
man has the larger share."

"This, I fear, is indeed the dangerous creed of many worldly Christians.
No; God m