[46]. Compare this with the passage in the Epistle to the Hebrews, xi. 6: “He that cometh unto God must believe that He is.”
[47]. Sen. Ep. 95.
[48]. Diss. III. 23. Compare our Lord’s words, Matt. ix. 12. “They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
[49]. Diss. II. 16.
[50]. Diss. Β. III. c. 4. Πότε καὶ ἐγὼ ἡμάρτανον· νῦν δ’ οὐκέτι, χάρις τῷ Θεῷ.
[51]. Gataker has the following apposite and judicious remark on this passage, “Et quæ sequuntur his gemina, homine Christiano quovis non indigna, Christum modo donatum nobis adjecisset.”—Præloq. M. Ant. Com.
[52]. Diss. B. II. c. 16.
[53]. Diss. B. IV. c. 12.
[54]. Diss. B. IV. c. 4.
[55]. Diss. B. I. c. 3.