They preached salvation in all its range and compass. In opposition to the Pharisaism of man's nature, they proclaimed justification by faith only—salvation "by grace," its one source and fountain, "through faith," its sole condition; and, in opposition to the Antinomianism of man's nature, they proclaimed that God renews whom he accepts—that the Spirit of adoption, who, by his testimony, conveys to us the assurance of God's fatherly love in our pardon and admission to the happy filial relation, instantly, and by means of that very testimony, creates filial love in our hearts, the principle of the divine nature which we now partake—that, in a word, the faith through which we are saved is the "faith which worketh by love," and which issues in a new creation.

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