152 ON NOVEL OPINIONS on, is more exalted by the death of Christ than by all other means that ever were devised. God's hatred of sin is more forth* expressed by the sacrifice of his Son,' than it could. have been by any other method, although we do not presume to set limits to infinite power. Yet .this most glorious doctrine, this cleanser from all sin, .may he converted by the manner in which it is adminis- tered into an open door to that licen- tiousness .which it is its special design, its obvious tendency, and, when truly received on scripture grounds, its natural consequence, to cure. But if men come to the perusal of the Bible with certain prepossessions of their own; instead of a simple and sincere desire after Divine truth ; if, instead of getting their obliquities rectified by try- ing them by this straight line, they venture to bend the straight line till it fits their own crooked opinions ; if they are determined to make between them' a conformity which they do not find,
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