doctrines may be discerned, namely, that they serve only to trouble and disquiet43 the good conscience. And by this we see the Roman religion to be corrupt and unsound, for a great part of it tends this way. Justification by works is a yoke that none could ever bear (Acts 15). The vow of single life is as a snare, or as the noose in the halter44 to strangle the soul (1 Cor. 7:3–4). So is the doctrine which teaches that men after their conversion must still remain in suspense of their salvation,
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