The minister but for curiosity and the dread of seeming absurd would have stopped his ears and refused to listen.

He was a man of not merely dry or stale, but of deadly doctrines.

He would have a man love Christ for protecting him from God, not for leading him to God in whom alone is bliss, out of whom all is darkness and misery.

He had not a glimmer of the truth that eternal life is to know God.

He imagined justice and love dwelling in eternal opposition in the bosom of eternal unity.