Rev. David Young, Perth, Introductory Essay, in Sir Matthew Hale, Knt., On the Knowledge of Christ Crucified, and Other Divine Contemplations (Glasgow: Printed for William Collins, 1828), p. xvii

The Bible is a cure for guilty ignorance, a revelation of the only provision for the expiation of guilt itself. It opens upon man with all the charm and all the moral effectiveness of mercy to the ill-deserving, while th…