CHAPTER XI. 



THE LAURISTINUS. 



" The memory of the just is blessed." Happy 

 are they who comprehend how siiif;il mortal man 

 may be just with God — who, in taking up the hap- 

 py boast '' He is near that justifieth, who shall 

 condemn me ?" can discern as their sole claim to 

 this glorious immunity, the justifying righteousness 

 of the Lord Jesus Christ, in virtue of wdiich their 

 iniquity is forgiven, and their sin is covered : their 

 persons are accepted, and their souls are saved. 



I knew an aged man, who lived through many 

 long years in the delighted contemplation of this 

 mystery ; who reahzed in its fullest extent the ap- 

 plication thereof to himself; who, taught daily to 

 comprehend more of the love of Christ which 

 passeth knowledge, had a well-spring of love flow- 

 ing from the depths of his renewed heart, towards 

 every child of Adum. When I saw him last, he 

 was green and flourisliing; in the seventy-sixth 

 year of his pilgrimage — aye, and blossoming too, 

 in all the rich, vigorous life that distinguishes my 



