There are two great Extremes, which are both Enemies to Christ and Godliness: Either to think we may be saved without the Remedy, or that we can do nothing with the Remedy; either to think that the Gospel is a needless Thing, or now that it is come, that it is an useless Thing—either that we have not destroy’d our selves, or that there is not offer’d Help in God. The one, in effect, denies the Fall; the other, our Redemption.

Samuel Fancourt, The Greatness of the Divine Love Exemplified and Display’d [a sermon on 1 John 4:9, published in 1725, reprinted in 1729 in the 2nd ed. of The Greatness of the Divine Love Vindicated in Three Letters.]