“The grace of God is as _the wind_, which _bloweth where it listeth_; and _it listeth_ to blow, with more or less force successively, all over the earth. You can as soon meet with a man that never felt the wind, or _heard the sound thereof_, as with one that never felt the Divine breathings, or heard _the still small voice_, which we call the grace of God. To suppose the Lord gives us a thousand tokens of _His eternal power and Godhead_, without giving us a capacity to consider, and grace to improve them, is not less absurd than to imagine that when He bestowed upon Adam all the trees of paradise for food, He gave him no eyes to see, no hands to gather, and no mouth to eat their delicious fruits.” “Waiving the case of infants, idiots, and those who have _sinned the sin unto death_, was there ever a sinner under no obligation to repent and to believe in a merciful God? Oh, ye opposers of _free grace_, search the universe with Calvin’s candle, and among your reprobated millions, find out the person who never had a merciful God; and show us the unfortunate creature, whom a sovereign God bound over to absolute despair of His mercy from the womb. If there is no such person in the world; if all men are bound to repent and to believe in a merciful God, there is an end of Calvinism. An unprejudiced man can require no stronger proof that all are redeemed from the curse of the Adamic law, which admitted of no repentance; and that the covenant of grace, which admits of, and makes provision for it, freely extends to all mankind. “_Out of Christ’s fulness all have received grace_, a _little leaven_ of saving power, an inward monitor, a divine reprover, a ray of _true_ heavenly _light_, which manifests first moral, and then spiritual good and evil. St. John _bears witness of that light_, and declares _it was_ the spiritual _life of man_, the true light _which enlighteneth_ not only _every man_ that comes into the Church, but _every man that comes into the world_—without excepting those who are yet _in darkness. For the light shineth in darkness_, even when _the darkness comprehends it not_. The Baptist also bore _witness of that light, that all men through it_, not through him, _might believe_; φως, _light_, being the last antecedent, and agreeing perfectly with δι’ αυτου.” The reader has already seen Mr. Hill’s strange and pernicious doctrine respecting eternal justification. Fletcher treats this Calvinistic dream with terrible though polite severity. Without attempting to condense his arguments, the following extract will serve to show his perfect victory over his respected opponent:— “You go on, ‘If Christ fulfilled the whole law and bore the curse, then all debts and claims against His people, be they more or be they less, be they small or be they great, be they before or be they after conversion, are for ever and for ever cancelled.’