ature of moral action, and laws
of moral agency.

"7. That all men (in the words of the article of your church) may
accept of the offers of salvation freely made to them in the
gospel, but that no one will do this, except he be drawn by the
Father.

"8. That the necessity of the influence of the Holy Spirit in
regeneration results solely from the voluntary perverseness of the
sinner's heart, or disinclination to serve God, which, while it
leaves him a complete moral agent, and without excuse for
neglecting his duty, suspends his actual salvation on the
sovereign will of God.

"9. That the renewing grace of God is _special_, in distinction
from that which is common, and is resisted by the sinful mind,
inasmuch as it is that which is designed to secure, and does
infallibly secure, the conversion of the sinner.

"10. That all who are renewed by the Holy Spirit are elected or
chosen of God from eternity, that they should be holy, not on
account of foreseen faith, or good works, but according to the
good pleasure of his will.

"11. That all who are renewed by the Holy Spirit, will, through
his continual influence, persevere in holiness to the end, and
obtain eternal life.

"Such is my faith in respect to some of the lending doctrines of
the gospel. These doctrines I preach; these I teach in the
theological department of this Seminary; these I have repeatedly
published to the world. With what truth or justice any regard me
as a 'teacher of theology, introducing heresy into our churches,'
the candid can judge.

"But it may be asked, whether, after all, there are not some
points on which I differ from my brethren generally, or, at least,
from some of them. I answer,--It would be strange if any two man
should be found to agree exactly in all the minute matters of
religious opinion. With respect, however, to what is properly
considered the Orthodox or Calvinistic SYSTEM of doctrines, as
including the great FACTS of Christianity, and as opposed to, and
distinguished from, the Unitarian, Pelagian, and Arminian
_systems_, I suppose there is between the Orthodox ministry and
myself an entire agreement. In respect to comparatively minor
points, and philosophical theories, and modes of defending the
Calvinistic system of doctrines, there has always been, as you are