14. Faith is profitable, therefore, when her brow is bright with a fair crown of good works. S. James ii. 14–26. This faith—that I may set the matter forth shortly—is contained in the following principles, which cannot be overthrown. If the Son had His origin in nothing, He is not Son; if He is a creature, He is not the Creator; if He was made, He did not make all things; if He needs to learn, He hath no foreknowledge; if He is a receiver, He is not perfect; if He progress, i.e. if it is possible for Him to ascend to a higher plane of existence. He is not God. If He is unlike (the Father) He is not the (Father’s) image; if He is Son by grace, He is not such by nature; i.e. He is a son “by adoption,” as one of ourselves. if He have no part in the Godhead, He hath it in Him to sin. i.e.He may not have as yet actually sinned, but it is within the range of possibility for Him—He is, as Hurter expresses it in his note, “auctor malitiæ si non actu, saltem potentia.” “There is none good, but Godhead.” S. Mark x. 18.