III.—Does the Church of England Hold this Doctrine?

1. Our Reformers held it certainly, but they teach in the 6th Article, that nothing is to be considered as an article of the faith which cannot be proved by "most certain warrant of Holy Scripture."

2. In 1562, A.D., the 42nd Article of 1552, A.D., was removed. This ran, "All men shall not be saved at the length. They also are worthy of condemnation who endeavour at this time to restore the dangerous opinion that all men, be they never so ungodly, shall be at length saved, when they have suffered pain for their sins a certain time appointed of God."

3. The language of the Privy Council Judgment, February, 1864, runs, "We do not find in the formularies * * * any suchdistinct declaration of our Church upon the subject, as to require us to condemn as penal the expression of hope, by a clergyman, that even the ultimate pardon of the wicked, who are condemned at the day of judgment, may be consistent with the will of Almighty God."