“No. If you do not believe that, you are an infidel, and no infidel can be saved.”
“Do you think Catholics can be saved?”
“My bar-room will hold all the Catholics who will be saved. And as for their popes, bishops and priests—I would not give a fig for their chance. Infidelity is bad enough, but popery is worse.”
In the afternoon, I fell in company with a Presbyterian, and asked him, “What I should do to be saved?”
“Believe in Christ.”
“What must I believe concerning Christ?”
“That he will save all he died for.”
“How many did he die for?”
“‘Are there few that be saved?’ ‘Strive to enter in at the strait gate, for narrow is the gate and strait is the way that leadeth to life and few there be that find it.’ These scriptures teach that only a small part of mankind are embraced in the covenant of grace.”
Soon after parting with this man, I fell in company with a Campbellite, and I asked, “What must one do to be saved?”