as is necessary for our happiness and direction. Christianity performs a twofold office; both enlightening the understanding and subduing the heart, by the most powerful motives. The sinner is no longer under fear and doubt as to what may be the divine procedure towards himself: it is of the essence of Christianity to inform the mind and tranquillize conscience on this important particular!
"Survey the wondrous cure,
And at each step let higher wonder rise!
Pardon for infinite offence! And pardon
Through means that speak its value infinite!
A pardon bought with blood! With blood divine!
With blood divine of him I made my foe!
Persisted to provoke! Though woo'd and aw'd,
Blest and chastis'd, a flagrant rebel still!
Nor I alone! A rebel universe!
My species up in arms! Not one exempt!
Yet for the foulest of the foul, he dies!"
