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32 And among the propositions affirmed in the same treatise, and briefly analyzed and demonstrated, are the following:

"VI. That, after the idea of a Trinity of Persons and the consequent idea of three Gods, has been rejected, and the idea of one God . . . received in its stead, the tenets of the aforesaid [popular] Theology are seen to be erroneous. "VII. That then the true and saving faith, which is a faith in one God, united with good works, may be acknowledged and received.

"IX. That the faith of the present day has separated religion from the church, since religion consists in the acknowledgment and worship of one God from faith grounded in charity. "XI. That from the faith of the present church there results a worship of the mouth and not of the life; yet the worship of the mouth is accepted by the Lord only in proportion as it proceeds from the worship of the life.

"XIV. That the doctrine of the faith of the present church ascribes to God human attributes; as that He regarded man from anger, and required to be reconciled; that He is reconciled through the love He bore his Son and by the intercession of the latter; that He required to be appeased by the sufferings of his Son, and thus to be brought back to mercy; and that He imputes the righteousness of his Son to an unrighteous man who supplicates it from faith alone.

"XV. That from the faith of the present church monstrous births have been and may still be produced; such as instantaneous salvation by an act of immediate mercy; predestination; the notions