The result of the experimental test, in the case of the Atonement of the cross, is one to which all teachers of Christianity bear abundant testimony. That this doctrine, when thoroughly apprehended, has deepened the sense of sin, while kindling the hope of pardon into assurance; that it has produced love to God, and love to man, while dashing to pieces the figment of human merit; that it has been the root of all Christian graces, while teaching their possessor to centre his faith in something beyond and above those graces; that it has imparted patience under suffering, triumphant joy amid the pangs of dissolution; all these are facts which every Christian biography, which every believer in Christ Jesus, will attest.

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