" "The pure and noble, the graceful and
dignified simplicity of language," says Pope, "is nowhere in such
perfection as in the Scriptures. The whole book of Job, with regard both
to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison,
the most noble parts of Homer." "I use the Scriptures," says Boyle, "not
as an arsenal to be resorted to only for arms and weapons, but as
A MATCHLESS TEMPLE,
where I delight to contemplate the beauty, the symmetry, and the
magnificence of the structure, and to increase my awe and excite my
devotion to the Deity there preached and adored." "There never was
found, in any age of the world," says Bacon, "either religion or law
that did so highly exalt the public good as the Bible." "It is the
window in this prison of hope," says Dwight, "through which we look into
eternity." "How admirable and beautiful," says Racine, "is the
simplicity of the Evangelists! They never speak injuriously of the
enemies of Jesus Christ, of his judges, nor of his executioners. They
speak the facts without a single reflection. They comment neither on
their Master's mildness, nor on his constancy in the hour of his
ignominious death, which they thus describe: 'And they crucified
Jesus.
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