Or the Archbishop's lady:--ho! a soul from the Chrysostom or Athanasian locker .-- But poor Moll Crispin is in the throes with twins:--well! there are plenty of cobblers' and tinkers' souls in the hold--John Bunyan!! Why, thou miserable Barrister, it would take an angel an eternity to tinker thee into a skull of half his capacity! Ib.p.30, 31.
"A 'truly' awakened conscience," (these anti-moral editors of the Pilgrim's Progress assure us,) "can never find relief from the law: (that is, the 'moral law'.) The more he looks for peace 'this way, his guilt', like a heavy burden, becomes more intolerable; when he becomes 'dead' to the 'law',--as to 'any dependence upon it for salvation',--by the body of Christ, and married to him, who was raised from the dead, then, and not till then, his heart is set at liberty, to run the way of God's commandments." Here we are taught that the 'conscience' can never find relief from obedience to the law of the Gospel.
False.

We are told by Bunyan and his editors that the conscience can never find relief for its disobedience to the Law in the Law itself;--and this is as true of the moral as of the Mosaic Law.

I am not defending Calvinism or Bunyan's theology; but if victory, not truth, were my object, I could desire no easier task than to defend it against our doughty Barrister.

Well, but I repent--that is, regret it!--Yes! and so you doubtless regret the loss of an eye or arm:--will that make it grow again ?--Think you this nonsense as applied to morality?
Be it so! But yet nonsense most tremendously suited to human nature it is, as the Barrister may find in the arguments of the Pagan philosophers against Christianity, who attributed a large portion of its success to its holding out an expiation, which no other religion did.

Read but that most affecting and instructive anecdote selected from the Hindostan Missionary Account by the Quarterly Review.