(2.) Reply to the usual calvinistic answer. p. 319. 2. Second passage. John x. 27-29. P. 321.

3. Third passage. Rom. viii. 28-30. p. 322.
(1.) The professed basis of the calvinistic gloss upon
this passage is the word Glorified. p. 323.

(2.) The usual arminian reply, being founded upon
doctrinal error, is thence unsatisfactory and
insufficient. p. 324.

(3.) The true reply rests upon a detection of the false
view of the word Glorified, which is taken by
the Calvinist. p. 326.

4. Fourth passage. Ephes. v. 25-27. p. 329.
(1.) Inconclusiveness of the reasoning of the Calvinist
from this passage, even on his own principles.
p. 329.

(2.) The real meaning of the passage is given well
and judiciously even by Augustine himself.
p. 330.

An Inquiry, negative and positive, into the Causation of Election, as it is propounded under the Gospel. p. 333.

I. The Inquiry negative. p. 333.

1. First evidential passage. Rom. viii. 29. p. 334.
2. Second evidential passage. Ephes. i. 3, 4. p. 334.
3. Third evidential passage. 1 Peter i. 1, 2. p. 335.
II. The Inquiry positive. p. 335.

1. The reasoning of St. Paul. Rom. xi. 5, 6. p. 335.
2. The declaration of St. Paul. 2 Tim. i. 9.
p. 337.

3. The doctrinal statement of St. Paul. Ephes. i. 3—11.

4. The lengthened reasoning of St. Paul, with his formal meeting of an objection. Rom. ix. 11-21. p. 338. III. The general result is that The strictly primitive doctrine of Election, in point both of Ideality and of Causation, is the precise doctrine authoritatively delivered both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament. p. 342.

CHAPTER VIII.

THE DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, RESPECTING

ELECTION, INVESTIGATED NEGATIVELY. p. 344.

A negative investigation of What doctrine, on the topic of Election, the Church of England does not hold. p. 345. I. On the part of the Calvinists, their claim of the Church of England is founded upon the Seventeenth Article of that Church. p. 345.

1. Chronology forbids the theory, that Cranmer, in drawing up the Seventeenth Article, built upon the doctrinal System propounded and controversially maintained by Calvin. p. 346.

2. The doctrine of the Seventeenth Article was borrowed, not from Calvin's predecessor Augustine, but from Melancthon who was consulted on the subject by Cranmer and who expressly rejected the fatalising Scheme of Calvin. p. 348.

3. With this conclusion agrees the very texture of the Article itself. p. 354.

4. We have no valid evidence, that the Theological System of Calvin is the Theological System of the Reformed Church of England. p. 358.

II. If we may judge from his apparently studied imitation of the language of the Seventeenth Article, Arminius

also may seem to have claimed the suffrage of the Anglican Church. p. 359.

1. The Causation of Election, according to Arminius. p. 363.

2. The Seventeenth Article gives no warrant to any claim, on the part of the Arminians, that the Church of England favours their System. p. 367.

3. We have no valid evidence, that the Theological System of the Anglican Church is the same as the Theological System of Arminius. p. 368.

III. Of that Scheme of Nationalism, which makes nations and not individuals the subjects of God's decree of Election, nothing can be discovered in the authorised documents of the Church of England. p. 368.

IV. The general conclusion is, negatively: that The Church of England upholds neither Calvinism nor Arminianism nor Nationalism. p. 368.

CHAPTER IX.

THE DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, RESPECTING

ELECTION, INVESTIGATED POSITIVELY. p. 369.

A positive investigation of What doctrine, on the topic of
Election, the Church of England does hold. p. 369.

I. The Ideality of Election, as maintained and taught by the
Church of England. p. 369.

1. The Seventeenth Article. p. 369.

(1.) The doctrine of Melancthon. p. 372.

(2.) An application of the doctrine of Melancthon to the Seventeenth Article. p. 376.

2. The other authorised documents of the English Church. p. 387.

(1.) The harmonising Ideality of Election as inculcated in those other documents. p. 391.

(2.) The Elect, as the Church of England understands the term, may fall away finally from Grace given. p. 396.

(3.) With the Ideality of Election, maintained by the English Church, the doctrine of Universal Redemption is perfectly compatible, and is thence consistently maintained. p. 405.

II. The Causation of Election, as held by the Church of England. p. 407.

1. The doctrine of Melancthon. p. 407.

2. From the history of the Seventeenth Article, we may
reasonably infer, that the doctrine of Melancthon is
the doctrine of the Church of England. p. 409.
(1.) The anglican doctrine of Causation may be
gathered from the use of the word freely in
the Seventeenth Article, though the Article
itself enters not specifically into the subject.
p. 411.

(2.) It may be gathered also from the general analogy
of the entire doctrinal System of the English
Church in regard to human merit. p. 412.
(3.) It may be yet further gathered from the very
necessity of the Scheme of Ideality, which has
been adopted by the Church of England. p. 413.
(4.) It may be finally gathered from the circumstance
of her employing language, which is utterly
irreconcileable with the notion, that the moving
Cause of Election is God's Foreknowledge of
man's future merit. p. 414.

CHAPTER X.

THE RATIONALE OR PRINCIPLE OF ECCLESIASTICAL INDI

VIDUAL ELECTION. p. 417.

The Rationale or Principle of Scriptural Election, which must be understood as denoting Ecclesiastical Individual Election, seems most probably to be the following. The remarkable dispensation in question is, in a manner, forced upon God, by the wickedness and perverseness of fallen man: so that, in truth, unless the Deity had ceased to be a moral governor of the universe, and unless he had determined to bind his whole intellectual creation upon earth in the adamantine chain of a Fatal Necessity; matters could not well have been otherwise, than what we actually find them to have been and what indeed we may observe them still to be. p. 419.

I. In order to develop this view of the subject, nothing more is necessary than simply to follow the history of man from the beginning. p. 420.

1. First period. p. 420.
2. Second period. p. 420.

3. Third period. p. 421.
4. Fourth period. p. 421.

5. Fifth period. p. 422.

II. The process, through all these periods, is nothing more than the inevitable result of a supreme government at once moral and merciful. p. 423.

III. The same view of the subject was taken of old by several of the ancient ecclesiastical writers: whence we may infer, that it was the ordinary accredited view of the Primitive Church. p. 426.

1. Ireneus. p. 426.

2. Justin Martyr. p. 428.

3. Cyril of Alexandria. p. 429.