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mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of Hosts." 

 When Daniel, the man greatly beloved, saw in a vision 

 the ineffable glory of God, he exclaimed, " My comeli- 

 ness is turned in me into corruption " ; and the impul- 

 sive Peter, when the consciousness of the Divine 

 presence like a lightning flash disclosed the dark depths 

 of his nature to him, on the occasion of the miracle in 

 the Sea of Galilee, said, " Depart from me, for I am a 

 sinful man, O Lord." 



And so is it still. The holiness of God, as it is 

 revealed to us in the face of His Son Jesus Christ, is 

 the best mirror in which to see reflected our own sinful 

 image. That holiness is the part of the Divine image 

 which we have completely lost in our fallen state. Every 

 human being can form some conception, fainter or 

 clearer, according to his own moral condition, of 

 the other attributes of God His justice, wisdom, 

 power, goodness, mercy, love; because of these 

 qualities there are still traces remaining in human 

 nature, and even in their ashes live their former fires. 

 But the image of God's holiness has completely van- 

 ished from human nature, and, therefore, we have no 

 materials within ourselves, from which, according to the 

 primeval law by which we make God in our own image, 

 to construct the idea of holiness as ascribed to God. 

 This power is the peculiar prerogative of the renewed 

 mind, to which the Holy Spirit gives back the original 

 image in which it was created. And the holiness of 

 God thus realized is that which, more than anything 

 else, convinces the soul of sin. When the pure search- 



