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 the Spirit of the living God is expressly and specially pledged to carry its message of mercy irresistibly to his heart. It is this mercy so rich and seasonable, and this Almighty quickening Spirit, which gives to the Bible its decided ascendency over the brightest irradiations of science; and conspicuous although it be, if you take it apart from these properties, it may still retain its doctrinal clearness, but its power is neutralized.

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