Testimony of the Scriptures to Themselves 45 justice of God, which as he looks up, lifts higher and higher. Infinite against infinite—infinite here, . Infinite there—n o bridge between them! Nature helps to no bridge. It no- where speaks of atonement. Standing with Uriel in the sun, we launch the proposition that the Scriptures are Divine in their very message because they deal with three Infinites: Infinite Guilt; Infinite Holi- ness; Infinite Atonement. A book must itself be infinite which deals with infinites; and a book must be Divine which divinely reconciles infinites. Infinite Guilt! Has my guilt any bottom? Is Hell any deeper ? Is there, in introspection, a possible lower, more bottomless nadir ? Infinite guilt! That is what opens, caves away under my feet, the longer, the more carefully I plumb my own heart—my nature, my record. Infinitely guilty! That is what I am— far, Oh, how far, below the plane of self-apology, or ghastly “criticism” of the Book which testifies to this. In- finitely guilty! That is what I am. Infinitely siriking, and, below me an infinite Tophet. I know that. As soon as the Bible declares it, I know it, and with it I know that witness- ing Bible Divine. I know it—I do not know how—by an instinct, by conscience, by illumination, by the power of the Spirit of God, by the Word without, and by the flashed con- viction in me which accord. And, counterpoised above me, a correlative Infinite -— God! What can be higher? What zenith loftier? What doming of responsibility more dread or more portentous ? Infinite God—above me—coming to judge me! On the way now. I must meet Him. I know that. I know it, as soon as the Bible declares it. I know it—I do not know how—b y an in- stinct. Even the natural man must picture to himself when thus depicted, and must fear, “A God in grandeur, and a world on fire.” An infinitely Holy God above me, coming to judge me. That is the second Infinite.
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