You will have discovered by this time in Maurice's 'What is Revelation ?' (I suppose you have the 'Sequel,' too ?), that God's truth is our truth, and His love is our love, only more perfect and full.

There is no position more utterly defeated in modern philosophy and theology than Dean Mansel's attempt to show that God's love, justice, &c., are different in kind from ours.

Mill and Maurice, from totally alien points of view, have shown up the preposterous nature of the notion.
"(3) A good deal of what you have thought is, I fancy, based on a strange forgetfulness of your former experience.

If you have known Christ--( whom to know is eternal life)--and that you have known Him I am certain--can you really say that a few intellectual difficulties, nay, a few moral difficulties if you will, are able at once to obliterate the testimony of that higher state of being?
"Why, the keynote of all my theology is that Christ is lovable because, and _just_ because, He is the perfection of all that I know to be noble and generous, and loving, and tender, and true.

If an angel from heaven brought me a gospel which contained doctrines that would not stand the test of such perfect lovableness--doctrines hard, or cruel, or unjust--I should reject him and his trumpery gospel with scorn, knowing that neither could be Christ's.