There is this difference-If I deal much with duties, and urge them on the conscience, I shall, if that be all, insensibly reduce the standard. If I present Christ to the soul, and plead His claims with the heart, I shall raise the standard.
The first of these different methods will, I believe, be made apparent in lower and higher measures of devotedness and service.
Besides, the mind, generated by the first, will be an inferior material to that produced by the second; it will not be the seat of the same light, freedom, and affection.
God will stand justified in the conscience of every single individual on the face of the earth, just as He did in the conscience of Adam in Gen. 3.
All may charge and accuse Him, and lay the fault and the blame at His door, as Adam did; but not one, any more than Adam, can have courage in the conscience to come out and boldly -without hesitation, to His face, tell Him so. All these bear witness, against themselves, and for God; for this cowardice in the conscience bespeaks the common universal guilt.