“Whether some of my opponents, good men as they are, have not a little inclined to the error of those sons of prejudice, I leave the candid reader to decide. They have neither answered nor yielded to the arguments of my ‘Checks.’ They are shut up in their own city. Strong and high are thy walls, O mystical Jericho! Thy battlements reach into the clouds, but _truth_, the spiritual ark of God, is stronger, and shall prevail. The bearing of it patiently around thy ramparts, and the blowing of rams’ horns in the name of the Lord, will yet shake the very foundations of thy towers. Oh that I had the honour of successfully mixing my feeble voice with the blasts of the champions who encompass the devoted city! Oh that the irresistible shout, _Reason and Scripture—Christ and the Truth_—were universal! If this were the case, how soon would Jericho and Babylon—Antinomianism and Pharisaism—fall together. “These two anti-Christian fortresses are equally attacked in the following pages. “The controversy is one of the most important which was ever set on foot. The GRAND inquiry, ‘_What shall I do to be saved?_’ is entirely suspended on this GREATER question, ‘_Have I anything_ TO DO _to be eternally saved?_’ A question this which admits of three answers:—1. That of the _mere Solifidian_, who says, If we are _elect_, we have nothing to do in order to eternal salvation, unless it be to believe that Christ has done all for us, and then to sing _finished salvation_; and if we are not _elect_, whether we do nothing, little, or much, eternal ruin is our _inevitable_ portion. 2. That of the _mere moralist_, who is as great a stranger to the doctrine of _free grace_ as to that of free wrath; and tells you that there is no free, initial salvation for us, and that we must work ourselves into a state of initial salvation by dint of care, diligence, and faithfulness. And 3. That of their _reconciler_, whom I consider as a rational Bible Christian, and who asserts (1) that Christ has done the part of a Sacrificing Priest and teaching Prophet upon earth, and does still that of an Interceding and Royal Priest in heaven, whence He sends His Holy Spirit to act as an enlightener, sanctifier, comforter, and helper in our hearts; (2) that _the free gift_ of initial salvation, and of one or more talents of saving grace, ‘_is come upon all_’ through the God-man Christ, who ‘_is the Saviour of all men, especially of them that believe_;’ and (3) that our free will, assisted by that saving grace imparted to us in the free gift, is enabled to work with God in a subordinate manner, so that we may freely (_without necessity_) do the part of penitent, obedient, and persevering believers, according to the Gospel dispensation we are under.