Alexander Carson, LL.D., The Knowledge of Jesus the Most Excellent of the Sciences, ninth thousand (New York: Edward H. Fletcher, 1855), Section II, "Characteristics of the Divine Mercy," p. 118

The mercy of the gospel is free mercy. It is pure mercy, without any view to merit, either before its reception or afterward. Before it is received, there is nothing but sin in him who is to receive it. There is nothing…