"The Reason of the Christian's Hope, Which He Ought Always to Be Ready to Give," in The Works of Samuel Hopkins, D.D., vol. III (Boston: Doctrinal Tract and Book Society, 1854), p. 712

We see more and more the evil nature of sin, and the ill desert of it, as we increase in our sense of the righteousness and excellency of the law of God, the wisdom of the gospel, and the worthiness and glory of God and…