the essential germ of saving scriptural truth, the testimony of the love and grace of God in Jesus Christ. Those passages of Scripture in which he found utterances of wrath and judgment were ever floating before his eyes. Even those in which he afterwards recognized a direct message of salvation were transformed for him into terrifying announcements. It was the spoken word of Christian brethren and fathers, or rather, a divine word presented to him through the medium of their lips, by which he was
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