Mozley: A Treatise on the Augustinian Doctrine of

32O Conclusion. CHAP. xi.
regeneration. A slight consideration will be enough to
show how intimately this doctrine is connected with the
and that one who holds an ex
general doctrine of grace ;
treme, and one who holds a modified doctrine of grace in
general, cannot hold the doctrine of baptismal regeneration
in the same sense. If a latitude of opinion, then, may be
allowed on the general question, it seems to follow that an
equal latitude may be allowed on this further and more
particular one and that if an extreme ;
predestinarian, and
a maintainer of freewill can maintain and teach their re
spective doctrines within the same communion, they need
not exclude each other when they come to give to their
respective doctrines their necessary and legitimate appli
cation in a particular case. I cannot, therefore, but think,
that further reflection will, on this and other questions,
modify the opposition of the two parties in our Church to
each other, and show that their disagreement is not so great
as in the heat of controversy they supposed it to be. Dif
ferences of opinion there will always be in every religious
communion, so long as the human mind is as variously
constituted as it is, and so long as proper liberty is allowed
it to express and unfold this variety. But it depends on
the discretion and temper of religious men to what extent
they will allow these differences to carry them ; whether
they will retain them upon a common basis of Christian
communion and fellowship, or raise them into an occasion
of separation and mutual exclusion.