" Thtit there is a seal of pardon, and an earnest of our
inheritance above, which you are as yet a stranger to,
seems clear from the tenor of your letter ; but had I
been in the place of the gentleman you mention, I would
have endeavoured to lay it before you as the fruit of
faith, and a most glorious privilege, rather than as the
root of faith, and a thing absolutely necessary to the
being of it.
