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8. We believe that we are justified by grace, through faith in 

 our Lord Jesus Christ, and that he that believeth hath the 

 witness in himself. 



9. We believe the Scriptures teach that not only does con- 

 tinuance in the favour of God depend upon continued faith in, 

 and obedience to, Christ, but that it is possible for those who 

 have been truly converted to fall away and be eternally lost. 



10. We believe that it is the privilege of all believers to be 

 " wholly sanctified," and that "the whole spirit and soul and 

 body" may "be preserved blameless unto the coming of our 

 Lord Jesus Christ. " That is to say, we believe that after con- 

 version there remain in the heart of the believer inclinations to 

 evil, or roots of bitterness, which, unless overpowered by Divine 

 grace, produce actual sin ; but that these evil tendencies can be 

 entirely taken away by the Spirit of God, and the whole heart, 

 thus cleansed from everything contrary to the will of God, or 

 entirely sanctified, will then produce the fruit of the Spirit only. 

 And we believe that persons thus entirely sanctified may, by 

 the power of God, be kept unblamable and unreprovable before 

 Him. 



11. We believe in the immortality of the soul ; in the resur- 

 rection of the body ; in the general judgment at the end of the 

 world ; in the eternal happiness of the righteous ; and in the 

 everlasting punishment of the wicked. 



