s an ignorant answer to say,
that for him to break the law was not sin. To break the moral law, and
to be a sinner, are not things arbitrarily put together; they are two
names for the same thing. It is worse to say he need not keep the law
because he was God. The law is the transcript of the character of God:
opposition to it is opposition to that character. Made of woman,
besides, he was made under the law. All praises of his goodness and
moral perfection are so many varied expressions for the completeness
with which he kept the law. And oh! indeed, what part of it so
peculiarly his own, as to love his neighbour as himself?

I say, therefore, again, to limit the divine love, to limit the
atonement, the grand expression of that love, is to limit the love of
Christ, and thus to make Christ a sinner. He that hath seen him hath
seen the Father. No moral difference surely is so great as that
between a breaker and a keeper of the law of love. What a moral
difference, then, between the character of a God manifested in the
one form and in the other.

APPENDIX.

The following letters are added, because they contain some interesting
details of the Lord's dealings with this our dear brother, which are
not contained in the Journal. And the reader will observe, that the
last letter is of a later date than the conclusion of the Journal.

BAGDAD, _Oct. 15th, 1831._

The Lord has just raised me up from a typhus fever, which, for
the last month, has been pressing a little hard on my strength,
but more on my spirits. The loss of my dearest Mary was so
deeply felt by my poor desolate heart, that, at times, I bore
up with difficulty; but the Lord shewed me that my sorrow was
so selfish, so earthly, so unworthy of his love, and poured in
besides such hopes and prospects as to my future work, that
sustained and comforted me.

I send with this a Journal of four months, from which you will
see what has been passing amongst us.

I have lately received many letters from my dear brethren at
Aleppo, and I think either Mr. Cronin or Mr. and Mrs. Parnell
will come to me the first opportunity, which will be an
unspeakable relief to my mind; for I long for some one to whom
I may unburthen my soul; for although my Lord is always near,
yet, as I see in Paul, so I find in myself, that the society of
Christian brethre