to light.” It was in direct opposition to this decree that the Sixth Article on the Sufficiency of the Scriptures was drawn up six years afterwards. It declared Scripture to be sufficiently full and sufficiently clear: sufficiently full, for it contains all things necessary to salvation without any supplement from tradition; and sufficiently clear, for, without the aid of either Church authority or the unanimous consent of the fathers, it speaks right home to the heart and understanding, so that whatever “is not read therein, or may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man that it should be believed as an Article of the faith.” * * * * * (2.)—_Justification by Faith Alone_. “How should man be justified with God?” has always been the first grand question for an awakened conscience. Thus those who know what it is to be justified through faith, will not be surprised at Luther’s memorable statement that the doctrine of justification by faith is the test of a standing or falling church, for we all know that in the case of individuals it is the turning point between a life of fear and a life of peace; may I not add between even death and life itself? Now on this point we are in direct collision with Rome. The conflict turns upon a single word. How can it be of such overwhelming importance, some will say, if all turns upon a word? But one word may make all the difference between truth and error, between peace and anxiety. There was a time when the whole controversy respecting the divinity of our Blessed Saviour turned on a letter, the little letter _ι_ in the word Ὁμοιουσία, which made all the difference between oneness and resemblance. The turning point in this controversy is the one word “only.” In 1546 Rome decreed “if any man shall say that men are justified by the imputation of the righteousness of Christ _only_, or the remission of our sins _only_, and not by grace and charity, which is infused it their hearts by the Holy Scriptures, and is inherent in them, let him be anathema.” That anathema the Church of England boldly challenged when in A.D. 1552 she drew up her Articles; and with distinct reforms to the “_only_” of Rome’s decree, she said exactly that on which Rome had pronounced her anathema, “we are accounted righteous before God _only_ for the merit of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ,” and that “we are justified by faith _only_, is a most wholesome doctrine.” Such an Article does not look like a compromise. It was the direct and open acceptance of Rome’s challenge. “If any man says _only_, let him be anathema,” says Rome. We say it, says the Church of England, for we know it to be the truth of God, and, knowing that, we defy your curse. * * * * * (3.)—_The Spirituality of the Sacraments_.