se texts on which you exclusively build; in the very next
sentence, perhaps, I am aroused to active virtue, by some lively
example, or absolute command. If again I am ever in danger, as you say,
of sinking the ship with my proud duties, the next passage calls me to
order, by some powerful injunction to renounce all confidence in my
miserable defective virtues, and to put my whole trust in Christ. By
thus assimilating the Creed with the Commandment, the Bible becomes its
own interpreter, and perfect harmony is the result. Allow me also to
remark, that this invariable rule of exhibiting the doctrines of
Scripture in their due proportion, order, and relative connection, is
one of the leading excellences in the service of our Church. While no
doctrine is neglected or undervalued, none is disproportionately
magnified, at the expense of the others. There is neither omission,
undue prominence, nor exaggeration. There is complete symmetry and
correct proportion."

"I assert that we are free by the gospel from the condemnation of the
law."

"But where do you find that we are free from the obligation of obeying
it? For my own part, I do not combine the doctrine of grace, to which I
most cordially assent, with any doctrine which practically denies the
voluntary agency of man. Nor, in my adoption of the belief of that
voluntary agency, do I, in the remotest degree, presume to abridge the
sovereignty of God. I adopt none of the metaphysical subtilties, none of
the abstruse niceties of any party, nor do I imitate either in the
reprobation of the other, firmly believing that heaven is peopled with
the humble and the conscientious out of every class of real Christians."

"Still I insist that if Christ has delivered me from sin, sin can do me
no harm."

"My dear Mr. Tyrrel, if the king of your country were a mighty general,
and had delivered the land from some powerful enemy, would it show your
sense of the obligation, or your allegiance as a subject, if you were to
join the enemy he had defeated? By so doing, though the country might be
saved, you would ruin yourself. Let us not then live in confederacy with
sin, the power of which, indeed, our Redeemer has broken, but both the
power and guilt of which the individual is still at liberty to incur."

"Stanley, I remember when you thought the gospel was all in all."

"I think so still; but I am now, as I was then, for a sober consistent
gospel, a Christianity which must evidence its