simple, comfort to the sorrowful, light to those who are in darkness,
and life to the dead. It introduces the infinite God as speaking in a
manner worthy of Himself; with simplicity, majesty and authority.

_It places before us the most important doctrines._ For example, the
doctrine of the Trinity of persons or substances in the Unity of the
Godhead--the proper, supreme, and eternal divinity of Christ--the
personality, divinity, and offices of the Holy Spirit--the great works
of creation and providence--the fall of man from the mortal image of
God--the necessity, nature, and extent of redemption--repentance
toward God, and faith toward the Lord Jesus Christ--justification
through the blood of the cross--the witness of the Spirit in the soul
of believers--regeneration by the Spirit of God--holiness in heart and
life--the resurrection of the dead--the general judgment--and the
eternity of future rewards and punishments.

_It inculcates the highest morality._ The love of God, and the love of
our neighbor--the doing to others as we would they should do to
us--the forgiving of our enemies--the living "soberly"--in the use of
food, apparel, and all things relating to ourselves, "righteously"--in
the performance of all duties towards our neighbors, and
"godly"--worshiping God in a right manner--the checking of all
impurity of thought and desire--the rendering of honor to whom honor,
and tribute to whom tribute, is due--the cultivation of humility,
meekness, gentleness, placability, disinterestedness, truth, justice,
beneficence, charity, and other virtues--and the avoidance of pride,
discontent, despair, revenge, cruelty, oppression, contention,
adultery, suicide, and other vices and crimes which injure mankind.

_It preserves from all error._ It is an infallible rule of judgment
and of practice, and clearly teaches what we ought to believe and what
we ought to do--it enlightens the mind, informs the judgment,
instructs the heart, and saves from those "faults in the life," which
"breed errors in the brain." All error--false judgment of things, or
assent unto falsehood--springs from ignorance of the Scriptures, Mark
xii. 24; John vii. 17; 2 Tim. iii. 13-17.

_It promotes holiness and peace here, as well as leads to happiness
and heaven hereafter._ "Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his
way?" Psalm cxix. 9, 103-105. "The law of the Lord is perfect,
converting the soul," Psalm xix. 7-11. What an eulogy is this on the
per