In the abstract idea of God there is nothing that humanity can compass. His creative power, his all-disposing wisdom, his undeserved bounty, and resistless vengeance—these are all we know of God, and these we cannot imitate, for they are the attributes of Deity. But as God has manifested himself to us in the humanity of Jesus Christ, we have a perfect pattern, by which we may fully know what he would have us to be. In proportion as we resemble this, we are holy in his sight; and in proportion as we are holy, we are happy. If it be but some faint, imperfect feature that we catch, graven by his Spirit on the heart, it will be great gain in our abundant wretchedness. But he has promised more, he has commanded more: and though of ourselves we can do nothing, we are to act as if we would do all.

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