truth; not merely by rendering more acute the reasoning powers, but by
convincing of sin, by humbling the man. It is the graces of the Spirit
which harmonize the man, and make him one; and that is the end, and
aim, and object of all the Gospel: the entireness of sanctification to
produce a perfectly developed man.

Most of us in this world are monsters, with some part of our being
bearing the development of a giant, and others showing the proportions
of a dwarf: a feeble, dwarfish will--mighty, full-blown passions; and
therefore it is that there is to be visible through the Trinity in us,
a noble manifold unity; and when the triune power of God shall so have
done its work on the entireness of our Humanity, that the body, soul,
and spirit have been sanctified, then shall there be exhibited, and
only then, a perfect affection in man to his Maker, and body, soul,
and spirit shall exhibit a Trinity in unity.




V.

_Preached June 2, 1850._

ABSOLUTION.


"And the Scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is
this which speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God
alone?"--Luke v. 21.