Relztrah
Puritan Board Freshman
Upon re-reading A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life which I read many years ago, I found this disturbing passage:
And yet if the way is narrow, if none can walk in it but those that strive, is it not as necessary for me to consider, whether the way I am in be narrow enough, or the labour I take be a sufficient striving, as to consider whether I sufficiently observe the second or third commandment? The sum of this matter is this: From the abovementioned, and many other passages of Scripture, it seems plain, that our salvation depends upon the sincerity and perfection of our endeavours to obtain it. [italics mine]
Does this not sound at best semi-Pelagian? So much of this book is encouraging and challenging and yet this an other passages suggest that Law had semi-Pelagian tendencies.