for ever forgets that the whole point in dispute is not concerning the possibility of an immoral Christian being saved, which the Methodist would deny as strenuously as himself, and perhaps give an austerer sense to the word immoral; but whether morality, or as the Methodists would call it, sanctification, be the price which we pay for the purchase of our salvation with our own money, or a part of the same free gift.  God knows, I am no advocate for Methodism; but for fair statement I am, and most zealously—­even for the love of logic, putting honesty out of sight.

Ib. p. 72.

  “In every age,” says the moral divine (Blair), “the practice has
  prevailed of substituting certain appearances of piety in the place of
  the great ‘duties’ of humanity and mercy,” &c.

Will the Barrister rest the decision of the controversy on a comparison of the lives of the Methodists and non-Methodists?  Unless he knows that their “morality has declined, as their piety has become more ardent,” is not his quotation mere labouring—­nay, absolute pioneering—­for the triumphal chariot of his enemies?

Ib. pp. 75-79.

It is but fair to select a specimen of Evangelical preaching from one of its most celebrated and popular champions * *.

He will preface it with the solemn and woful communication of the Evangelist John, in order to show how exactly they accord, how clearly the doctrines of the one are deduced from the Revelation of the other, and how justly, therefore, it assumes the exclusive title of evangelical.  ’And I saw the dead * * * and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.  And the sea gave up the dead * * and they were judged every man according to his works’.  Rev. xx. 12, 13.  Let us recall to mind the urgent caution conveyed in the writings of Paul * * ’Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap’.  And let us further add * * the confirmation * * of the Saviour himself:—­’When the Son of Man shall come in his glory, * * * but the righteous into life eternal’.  Matt. xxv. 31, ‘ad finem’.  Let us now attend to the Evangelical preacher, (Toplady).  “The Religion of Jesus Christ stands eminently distinguished, and essentially differenced, from every other religion that was ever proposed to human reception, by this remarkable peculiarity; that, look abroad in the world, and you will find that every religion, ‘except one’, puts you upon ’doing something’, in order to recommend yourself to God.  A Mahometan * * A Papist * * * It is only the religion of Jesus Christ that runs counter to all the rest, by affirming—­that we are ‘saved’ and called with a holy calling, ‘not’ according to our works, but according to the Father’s own purpose and grace, which was ‘not’ sold to us ’on certain conditions to be fulfilled by ourselves’, but was given us in Christ before the world began.”  Toplady’s Works:  Sermon on James ii. 18.