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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt:... necessary to salvation" is, therefore, only a proof of the truth that "conscience makes cowards of us all." 2. The Catholic Church, from whom the average sectarian, wittingly or unwittingly, has absorbed that pernicious mixture of Law and Gospel which characterizes the Roman system. The Decrees of Trent declare (Sess. 6, c. 16): "As a constant power flows from Christ, the Head, on the justified, who are His members, as from the vine to its branches, a power which precedes their good works, accompanies the same, and follows them,--a power without which they can be in no wise agreeable to God and meritorious, so we are bound to believe that the justified are enabled, through works performed in God, to satisfy the divine Law, according to the conditions of this present life, and to merit eternal life, when they depart in a state of grace."--/. A. Moehler's Symbolism, 158. But God says:--Heb. 2, 4: "The just shall live by his faith." Gal. 3, 10. 11: "For as many as are of the works of the Law are under the curse. But that no man is justified by the Law in the sight of God it is evident; for, The just shall live by faith." Rom. 7,18: "For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing; for to will is present with me, but how to perform that which is good I find not." Is. 64, 6: "But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags." Ps. 143, 2: "Enter not into judgment with Thy servant; for in Thy sight shall no man living be justified." (Luke 17, 10.) 1 Cor. 4, 15: "In Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the Gospel." Jas. 1, 18. 21: "Of His own will begot He us with the Word of Truth, that we should be a kind of first-fruits of His creatures. Wherefore... receive with meekness the engrafted Word, which is abl...