neither is there salvation in any other : for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved V Of St. Paul it is scarcely needful to speak. Only let a man, desirous of know- ing the truth of God, read with an unprejudiced mind the Epistles to the Romans and the Galatians, and he could no more doubt what were St. Paul's sentiments, than he could doubt whether the sun shines at noon- day. That a learned and ingenious man may involve the plainest subjects in obscurity, and may maintain even the most palpable absurdities with somewhat like a plausible course of argument, is well known to this audience, who are habituated to investigate theories of every kind. But the Scriptures are written for the poor : and it is a fact, that the poor do understand them ; whilst the vain disputers of this world are bewildered in their own mazes, and by the just judg- ment of God are " taken in their own craftiness"." But, that we may not seem as if we took St. Paul's testimony for granted, we will bring to your remem- brance that answer which he gave to the jailor, when inquiring, ''Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" He rephed to the same effect as Peter had done on the day of Pentecost, " Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved"."
We will mention also that striking reproof which he gave to Peter, for countenancing, by his dissimu- lation, the idea, that something besides faith in Christ was necessary to salvation : " We (we Jews, we Apostles,) knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ ; even we have believed in Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law : for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified °."
Here perhaps it will be urged, that the testimony of St. James is altogether on the opposite side ; for that he says, " We are justified by works, and not by faith only p." But if only we attend to the scope of
' Acts iv. 10—12, m 1 Cor. i. 18—29. and iii. 18, 19. n Acts xvi. 30, 31. " Gal. ii. 16. p Jam. ii. 24.