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Bishop Horne on preaching the Gospel, pp. 5-11. It is almost needless to remark the consonance of this view with the truly Scriptural, but deeply humbling doctrine of Article xiii. Upon this view Augustine justly denominated the moral virtues of Pagan philosophers, ‘splendida peccata.’ [splendid sins] ‘Per fidem venitur ad opera; non per opera venitur ad fidem’—was one of the sententious aphorisms of the old Divines. – “Through faith we arrive at the works; we do not come to the faith by works.”