will put
my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts; and I
will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people.' Heb.
8:10.

"10. That sanctification is not a proper evidence of
justification.

"For those who endeavor to evidence their justification by their
sanctification, are looking to their own attainments, and not to
Christ's righteousness, for hopes of salvation."

PELAGIANS.

A denomination which arose in the fifth century, so called from Pelagius,
a monk, who looked upon the doctrines which were commonly received,
concerning the original corruption of human nature, and the necessity of
divine grace to enlighten the understanding and purify the heart, as
prejudicial to the progress of holiness and virtue, and tending to
establish mankind in a presumptuous and fatal security. He maintained the
following doctrines:--

"1. That the sins of our first parents were imputed to them only,
and not to their posterity; and that we derive no corruption from
their fall, but are born as pure and unspotted as Adam came out of
the forming hand of his Creator.

"2. That mankind, therefore, are capable of repentance and
amendment, and of arriving to the highest degrees of piety and
virtue, by the use of their natural faculties and powers. That,
indeed, external grace is necessary to excite their endeavors, but
that they have no need of the internal succors of the divine
Spirit.

"3. That Adam was, by nature, mortal, and, whether he had sinned
or not, would certainly have died.

"4. That the grace of God is given in proportion to our merits.

"5. That mankind may arrive at a state of perfection in this life.

"6. That the law qualified men for the kingdom of heaven, and was
founded upon equal promises with the gospel."

PRE-ADAMITES.

This denomination began about the middle of the sixteenth century. Their
principal tenet is _that there must have been men before Adam_. One proof
of this they bring from Rom. 5:12, 13, 14. The apostle says, "_Sin was in
the world till the law_;" meaning the law given to Adam. But sin, it is
evident, was not imputed, though it might have been committed, till the
time of the pretended first man. "_For sin is not imputed when there is no
law._"

The election of the Jews, they say, is a consequence of the same system.
It began at Adam, who is called thei