Excerpt from A Help to the Book of Genesis, on the Lesson System of Teaching: Containing the Text, With Explanations, Forming a Paraphrase, a Catechetical Exercise, and Practical Lessons
Nature, reason, and revelation, all concu in establishing, that the well-being and happi ness of every rational intelligence are in em proportion to his virtue - or, in other word: to his likeness to God, and the nearness to whic he approaches, in his disposition and condue to God's moral image. This moral image, one perfect in man, has been defaced by the fill All the miseries of humanity have been the con sequence of its loss; and not a shadow of hop remains for man, except in connection with it restoration. When this is again restored, 11 will again be happy -but, till it be obtaine' he must remain wretched and miserable.
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