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"Very far gone," is _quam longissime_ in the Latin of the ninth article, -- as far gone as possible, that is, as was possible for _man_ to go; as far as was compatible with his having any redeemable qualities left in him. To talk of man's being _utterly_ lost to good, is absurd; for then he would be a devil at once.
One mistake perpetually made by one of our unhappy parties in religion, -- and with a pernicious tendency to Antinomianism, -- is to confound _sin_ with _sins_. To tell a modest girl, the watchful nurse of an aged parent, that she is full of _sins_ against God, is monstrous, and as shocking to reason as it is unwarrantable by Scripture. But to tell her that she, and all men and women, are of a sinful nature, and that, without Christ's redeeming love and God's grace, she cannot be emancipated from its dominion, is true and proper.[1]