amples. Let him that standeth take heed that "he fall not. But God hath loved me, and hath "chosen me to salvation. His mercy shall go be"fore me, and his mercy shall follow in me. His

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mercy shall guide my feet, and stay me from falling. If I stay by myself, I stay by nothing; "I must needs come to ground.-He hath loved me; he hath chosen me; he will keep me. "Neither the example nor the company of others, "nor the enticing of the devil, nor my own sensual "imaginations, nor sword, nor fire, is able to sepa" rate me from the love of God, which is in Christ "Jesus our Lord. This is the comfort of the faith"ful. Whatsoever falleth upon others, though "others fall and perish, although they forsake "Christ and follow after antichrist, yet God hath "" loved you and given his Son for you. He hath "chosen you, and prepared you unto salvation, "and hath written your names in the book of life. "But how may we know that God hath chosen us?

how may we see this election? or, how may we feel it? The apostle saith, Through sanctification " and the faith of truth: these are tokens of God's "election.This (namely the Holy Spirit) com"forteth us in all temptations, and beareth witness

with our spirit that we be the children of God; "that God hath chosen us, and doth love us, and "hath prepared us to salvation; that we are the "heirs of his glory; that God will keep us as the

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apple of his eye; that he will defend us, and we "shall not perish."

The reader can now be at no loss what to think

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of Dr. Tomline's insinuation; "If our great Reformers, the authors of these Homilies, CRANMER, RIDLEY, LATIMER, and JEWELL, had themselves, as is sometimes pretended, held Cal"vinistic opinions," &c. The extracts here adduced require no addition, explanation, or comment, to give this pretence, as his lordship calls it, all the force of demonstration.

The marginal notes and contents, inserted in the Bibles published by authority in the reign of Edward the Sixth, and that of Elizabeth, contribute additional evidence to the same point.

In "The Great Bible," published in 1549, principally under the direction of Archbishop Cranmer, we find such sentiments as these: "Our election is

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by grace, and not by works. Few are elect or "chosen. We are elect of God the Father, through "his good will before the construction of the world, "that by the grace and merit of Christ we should "have health, serving all men by charity. The "elect cannot be accused, forasmuch as God jus"tifieth them. The predestinate are saints, or

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holy people, made like to the image of the Son of God, and called, justified, and glorified by him. "God had predestinate, before the making of the

world, for to redeem us by the blood of his Son, " for to save and make us his children by adoption, according to the purpose of his will."

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"The Bishops' Bible" was published in 1568, principally under the care of Archbishop Parker. I shall quote but four of the notes.

On Rom. iii. 20. "He includeth here the whole

"law, both ceremonial and moral; whose works "cannot justify because they be imperfect in all

On Rom. x. 4. "Christ hath fulfilled the whole "law; and therefore, whosoever believeth in him "is counted just before God, as well as he had ful"filled the whole law himself."

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On Rom. xi. 35. "By this the Apostle declareth, that God, by his free will and election, "doth give salvation unto men, without any deserts

" of their own."

On 2 Pet. i. 10. "Give diligence to make your calling and election sure-" "Albeit it be sure "in itself, forasmuch as God cannot change; yet we must confirm it in ourselves by the fruit of the

Spirit: knowing that the purpose of God calleth, sanctifieth, and justifieth."

"The Quarto Bible," printed first in 1576, went through several editions in the same reign. The notes are too numerous and explicit to leave any doubt respecting the sentiments of the Prelates concerned in their publication.

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On Matt. xi. 26. "Faith cometh not of man's

will or power; but by the secret illumination of "God, which is the declaration of his eternal "counsel."

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On Matt. xxv. 34. "Hereby God declareth the certainty of our predestination; whereby we are 66 'saved, because we were chosen in Christ before "the foundations of the world."

On Matt. xxv. 35.

"Christ meaneth not that

"our salvation dependeth on our works or me

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rits; but teacheth, what it is to live justly ac

cording to godliness and charity; and that God recompenseth his, of his free mercy, likewise "as he doth elect them."

On Mark xiii. 22.

"The elect may waver and

“be troubled, but they cannot utterly be deceived " and overcome."

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Luke xxiii. 35. "The Christ, the chosen of "God."-" Whom God hath before all others appointed to be the Messias. Otherwise, the Scripture calleth them the elect of God, whom he "hath chosen, before all beginning, to life ever"lasting."

"THE ARGUMENT," prefixed to the Epistle to the Romans, remarks; "The great mercy of God " is declared towards man, in Christ Jesus, whose righteousness is made ours by faith. For when "man, by reason of his own corruption, could not "fulfil the law, yea, committed most abominably "both against the law of God and nature; the in"finite bounty of God ordained, that man's salva"tion should only stand in the perfect obedience of "his Son Jesus Christ."

On 2 Cor. iii. 3. "The hardness of man's heart, "before he be regenerate, is as a stone table.

Ezek. ii. 19, and xxxvi. 26. But being regene"rate by the Spirit of God, it is as soft as flesh ; "that the grace of the gospel may be written in it, "as in new tables."

On Gal. i. 7.-"What is more contrary to our

"free justification by faith, than the justification by "the law or our works? Therefore, to join these "together, is to join light with darkness, death with "life, and doth utterly overthrow the gospel."

On James ii. 14.-" St. Paul, to the Romans "and Galatians, disputeth against them which at"tributed Justification to works; and here St. James "reasoneth against them which utterly condemn "works. Therefore Paul showeth the causes of our "Justification, and James the effects. There it is "declared how we are justified; here how we are "known to be justified. There works are excluded, "as not the cause of our Justification; here they "are approved, as effects proceeding thereof. There they are denied to go before them that shall be "justified; and here they are said to follow them "that are justified."

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Similar sentiments were espoused and maintained by all the advocates for the Reformation in the Church of England in the reign of Elizabeth. No inconsiderable testimony to its genuine doctrines is furnished by Dr. WILLIAM FULKE, Master of Pembroke Hall, and Margaret Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge. About the middle of the reign of that princess, this learned divine published THE TEXT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, AS TRANSLATED FROM THE VULGATE LATIN BY THE ENGLISH CATHOLICS AT RHEMES, AND THE VERSION FROM THE ORIGINAL GREEK, COMMONLY USED IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, IN PARALLEL COLUMNS, WITH AN EXPOSITION OF