art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity."[1] "God is light, and in him is no darkness at all."[2]
Of his justice they thus speak. "Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne."[3] "He is excellent in power and in judgment, and in plenty of justice."[4] They are equally explicit in declaring his goodness and truth. "The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth."[5] Now it is the duty and high privilege of man to be conformed to the Divine nature in his moral excellence. But when we contemplate unregenerate man, either in the light of experience or revelation, we cannot fail to see the vast distance at which he stands from that moral likeness of God, which it is his privilege to bear. God is holy; he looks upon sin with infinite abhorrence. But
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