XXXVI ' PREFACE. 



licism offers to the masses a molluscan 



shell An assurance of salvation 



at the smallest possible cost forms the 

 tempting bait held out to a conscience- 

 stricken world by the Romish Church. 

 Thousands, therefore, who have never been 

 taught to use their faculties in ' working 

 out their own salvation,' thousands who 

 will not exercise themselves religiously, 

 and who yet cannot be without the 

 exercises of religion, entrust themselves in 

 idle faith to that venerable house of refuge 

 which for centuries has stood between God and 

 man" (pp. 3278). 



Again, Mr. Newton quotes c approvingly 

 the assertion of the Guardian reviewer, 

 when he says, " Mr. Drummond does not 

 seem aware of all that his theory implies, 

 For all the unregenerate it necessarily 

 implies annihilation." To which Mr. New- 

 ton adds "The reviewer rightly says- 

 that Mr. Drummond's book teaches the 

 annihilation of the unregenerate" (p. 172). 

 In opposition to these unjust conclusions 

 of the Guardian and Mr. Newton, let us 



