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THE FALL AND ATONEMENT.
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not perpetually want pleading with and reminding of an offered sacrifice.
Oh, no! the divine mercy is all sufficient to ensure our full pardon, and the divine power is all sufficient to endow us with the means of availing ourselves of the pardon if we are so disposed.
"The quality of mercy is not strained:
It droppeth as the gentle dew from heaven
Upon the place beneath.It is twice blessed:
It blesses him that gives, and him that takes.
'Tis mightiest in the mighty: it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown."
It droppeth as the gentle dew from heaven
Upon the place beneath.It is twice blessed:
It blesses him that gives, and him that takes.
'Tis mightiest in the mighty: it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown."
