sins of the whole world.” Like an honest man, and yet a man of sense, he so subscribed the seventeenth article as not to reject the thirty-first, which he thinks of equal force, and much more explicit; and, therefore, as the seventeenth article authorizes him, he “receives God’s promises in suchwise as they are generally set forth in holy Scripture;” rejecting, after the example of our governors in Church and state, the Lambeth articles, in which the doctrine of absolute unconditional election and
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