That no other salvation than that which is instantaneous from immediate mercy is believed in at this day is evident from this, that faith alone, which is of the mouth only, along with an assurance of the breath, unaccompanied by charity from which the faith of the mouth becomes real and the assurance of the breath becomes faith of the heart, is supposed to complete the whole work of salvation. For, if the co-operation which is effected through the exercise of charity by man as of himself is taken away, the spontaneous co-operation which is said to follow faith of itself becomes passive action. But this is frivolous talk. For what, then, is the need for more than this momentary and direct appeal: "Save me, O God, on account of the suffering of Thy Son, who has washed me from my sins in His own blood, and presents me pure, just and holy, before Thy throne"? And this utterance of the mouth, it is said, avails as a seed of justification even in the last hour of death, if it has not done so sooner. Instantaneous salvation from direct mercy is, however, at this day, a fiery flying serpent in the Church, and because of it religion is abolished, a false sense of security introduced, and damnation imputed to the Lord as may be seen in n. 340 of the work on THE DIVINE PROVIDENCE, published at Amsterdam, in the year 1764.