So long as the rewards for which we hope and the punishments which we dread are conceived of as inward and spiritual, we are on safe ground.

But such a scheme of rewards and punishments is wholly foreign to the genius of supernaturalism.

It is not by becoming more virtuous that we are saved.

It is not by becoming more vicious that we are lost.

We are saved by obedience, we are lost by disobedience, to the formulated rules of a divinely-delivered law.