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‘The line of demarcation is sometimes so strictly drawn that, it would seem as if no attainments which fall short of a prescribed standard, were to be accounted as indicative of the existence of any religious feeling. It would be more consonant to our Lord’s example if, when appearances on the whole are favourable, those who still lack one thing were brought to a clearer knowledge of the way of salvation by forbearance and seasonable admonition. If the Apostle thought it necessary to exhort believers to add to their faith, virtue; and to virtue, knowledge, etc. he must have contemplated the possibility that those who might afterwards become thoroughly furnished unto all good works, had been formerly deficient in some of the Christian graces.’ Bishop of Winchester’s Min. Char. pp. 196-198.