+I. The wisdom and prudence of the Gospel are manifested by showing with equal distinctness the Divine justice and mercy.+--Justice does not arrest the hand of mercy; mercy does not restrain the hand of justice. They speak with a united voice, they command with a united authority, they shine with a united glory. Neither excels. The one does not overbear the other. Their common splendour is like the neutral tint, the effulgent colourlessness of the undecomposed ray. +II. By exhibiting the incarnate Son as alike the object of love and adoration.+ +III. By insisting most uniformly on Divine grace and human responsibility.+ +IV. By the proposal of the freest terms of acceptance and the enforcement of the most universal practice of obedience.+ +V. By inspiring the most elevated joy in connection with the deepest self-abhorrence.+ +VI. By displaying the different conduct pursued by the Deity towards sin and the sinner.+ +VII. By combining the genuine humility of the Gospel with our dignity as creatures and our conscientiousness as saints.+ +VIII. By causing all supernatural influence to operate through our rational powers and by intelligent means.+ +IX. By resting our evidence of safety and spiritual welfare upon personal virtues.+ +X. By supplying the absence of enslaving fear with salutary caution.+ +XI. The actual existence of our depraved nature and the work of sanctification in us pressing forward to its maturity tend to that regulated temperament of mind which we urge.+ +XII. Certain views of personal conduct are so coupled in the Gospel with the noblest views of grace that any improper warping of our minds is counteracted.+ +XIII. While the distinctive blessings and honours of the Christian might tend to elate him, he is affected by the most opposite motives.+ +XIV. God abounds in this wisdom and prudence towards us by most strongly abstracting us from the things of earth and yet giving us the deepest interest in its relations and engagements.+--All the truths of revelation are only parts of one system, but their effects upon the believing mind are common and interchangeable. There is no extraneous, no irreconcilable, no confusing element in Christianity. It is of One; it is one. And if we be Christians, our experience will be the counterpart of it. As it works out from apparent shocks and collisions its perfect unity, so shall our experience be wrought in the same way. In obeying from our hearts its form, whatever of its influence may seem to interfere with each other, they will all be found to establish our heart; as the opposing currents often swell the tide and more proudly waft the noble bark it carries, as the counterbalancing forces of the firmament bear the star onward in its unquivering poise and undeviating revolution.--_R. W. Hamilton._ Vers. 9-12. _The Mystery of the Gospel._