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good works a condition of everlasting salvation though not of justification , viz . as the term justification is used in St . Paul's Epistles and in our Articles ? St . James takes it in a different sense ; and therefore does not contradict St . Paul .
12 . Are conditions of salvation incompatible with the doctrine , that salvation is the free gift of God ? Or must we not rather conclude , from the very circumstance , that though , on the part of God , the gift is free , he may annex to the offer whatever conditions he may think proper to prescribe ? *
13 . Are not those conditions repeatedly declared in Holy Scripture ? 14 . Has not Christ himself declared that we are to be rewarded every man according to his worhs , \ and that they only who have done good shall come to the resurrection of life ? %
15 . Has not St . Paul also declared that God will render to every man according to his deeds ?—Rom . ii . 6 . 16 . Does not St . James ask the question—Can faith save us ? And
does he not himself answer the question , by saying that € f faith , if it hath not works , is dead" ?—James ii . 14 , 17 .
CHAP . VT . Of Predestination . 1 . Does not the Seventeenth Article enumerate various qualities as belonging to those persons who are predestined to everlasting life ?
2 . Is it not one of those qualities , that " they walk religiously in good works" ? 3 . Is not , therefore , the walking religiously in good works , a criterion by which they who are predestined to eternal life may be distinguished from those who are not so predestined ?
4 . Does not our Saviour declare that we shall be known by our works , as a tree is known by its fruit ?—Matt . vii . 16—21 - xii . 33—35 : Luke vi . 43 , 45 . 5 . Does not St . Peter declare that we are elect according to the
foreknow-* The word used by St , Paul , clearly shews that it is the giver , not the receiver 9 who is free from obligation . —See Rom , v . 15 , 16 . t Matt , xvi . 27- \ John v . 29 .
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ledge of God , unto obedience ?—1 Pet i . 2 . 6 / ft ^* iot , therefore , a contradictioBaggboth to Scripture and to the S ^| P §§* fjfe Article , to assert that the dte * 8 |* yr € tod are absolute ? Or that eV&tfth ^ tffiP the part of God has no
reference to foreseen good conduct on tht ' p&rf ? of man ? 7- If we believe that , in respect to a future state , neither our good conduct can excite any reasonable hope , nor our bad conduct any reasonable fear , is there any thing beyond the dread of temporal punishment to deter us from the commission of crimes ?
8 . Is not the law of God ( which , when rightly understood , affords us an additional sanction to the law of man ) so perverted by such a belief , as to become the means of counteracting the law of man ?
9 . Is not such a belief injurious also to the individual , as well as to society , by exciting ungrounded hopes in the confident hypocrite , and driving modest virtue to despair ? 10 . Though tfte Creator i 3 not accountable to the creature , and his wUl alone determines who shall be elected
to eternal life , is it credible that a Being of infinite wisdom , justice and goodness , should elect on any other principles than such as are consistent with those attributes ? 11 . And does not absolute or indiscriminate election annul the
distinctions of good and evil , of virtue and vice ? 12 . Is , therefore , such election possible on the part of a Being who is infinitely wise , just and good ?
CHAP- VII . Of Regeneration , or the New Birth . 1 . Is not our new birth distinguished from our first , or natural birth , by being a spiritual birth ? 2 . Are we not spiritually born when we enter into covenant with God ?
3 . Do we not enter into covenant with God , through Christ , at our baptism ? 4 . When the outward sign is duly accompanied with the inward grace , are we not then born ( in the words ot our Saviour , John iii . 5 y " of water and the Spirit "? 5 . Does not our baptismal service
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510 Peterborough Questions .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1821, page 510, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2504/page/6/
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