3. From what has been said, we can easily answer a third class of scriptures which the Calvinists dwell upon to support their system --viz, those which declare salvation to be of _grace_ and not of _works_. Of these there is evidently a large catalogue of very express and unequivocal passages. Take two or three for an example of the whole, "Even so then, at the present time, there is a remnant, according to the election of grace, and if it be by grace then it is no more of works, otherwise grace is no more grace; but if it be of works, then it is no more grace, otherwise work is no more work." "By grace ye are saved." "Having predestinated us unto the adoption of his children, &c, to the praise of the glory of his grace." "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost." Now we profess to believe these scriptures as unqualifiedly and as cordially as the Calvinists; and we think them perfectly in accordance with our views of election. For we believe, as has been already stated, that God's plan for saving sinners originated entirely in his love to his undeserving creatures. There was nothing in all the character and circumstances of the fallen family, except their sin and deserved misery, that could claim the interposition of God's saving power. The way of executing his gracious plan, and rendering it available in any case, he of course, as a sovereign, reserved to himself. And if he saw that a conditional election was best suited to the principles of his government, and the responsibility of man, shall it be said, this cannot be, for it destroys the idea of grace? _Cannot_ a conditional election be of grace? Let the intelligent and candid answer. Even many of the Calvinists acknowledge that _salvation_ is conditional, and yet it is of grace; for "by grace ye are saved." Now if salvation is conditional and yet of grace, why not election? Let Calvinists answer this question.