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other, but too often the story of that greater wonder, that 

 God should have become man, falls upon listless ears and 

 cold hearts; and yet the former, which we scarcely weary 

 of tracing, concerns only the well-being of a poor dull 

 creature scarcely raised above the life of a plant, whereas 

 the latter had for its object the lifting of creatures from a 

 state of ruin and wrath to immortal life and everlasting 

 glory; and the creatures are ourselves! 



