. Christian ethics : or, The true moral manhood and life of duty : a text-book for schools and colleges. Righteousness. — \Yhen Gods goodnessappears as rigliteousness or justice in his dealings with man as a subjectof his moral government, duty requires the exercise of such feelings asreverence and godly fear. Thirdly, to God as Infinite Beneficence.—Gods goodness may man-ifest itself as love and mercy toward man as dependent or wretched; oras grace toward man as sinful or undeserving. Gods goodness as love and mercy, exercised in creation and prov-idence, obviously binds man to render to him
. Christian ethics : or, The true moral manhood and life of duty : a text-book for schools and colleges. Righteousness. — \Yhen Gods goodnessappears as rigliteousness or justice in his dealings with man as a subjectof his moral government, duty requires the exercise of such feelings asreverence and godly fear. Thirdly, to God as Infinite Beneficence.—Gods goodness may man-ifest itself as love and mercy toward man as dependent or wretched; oras grace toward man as sinful or undeserving. Gods goodness as love and mercy, exercised in creation and prov-idence, obviously binds man to render to him gratitude and love, in vicAVof his past blessings; to exercise tnist or rest in God, including resig-nation as confidence in his goodness in the present; and to cherish hopein God, because of his assured goodness for the future. Gods goodness, as grace to the sinner, binds man — in view of thatsystem which proposes to lift him out of his sin and death and to bringhim into full union and sympathy with God — to exercise pemte/ice, witha boundless gratitude, confidence, hope, and devotion. 28 7. CHAPTER III. SUPREME DEVOTION OF THE WILL TO GOD. AS man was made to lead a life of activity under law, so hewas made above all to lead it under God, whose will isthe true law of human conduct. In short, it is the supremeduty of man, as a voluntary and free being, to give himself toa life of obedience and service to that being whose will is hishighest law and whose service is his noblest activity. Activity of will toward God is no less essential to the com-plete manhood than activity of the intellect or heart towardhim; and all inactivity or disobedience Godward dwarfs andprevents man from attaining to the true height of his being. The Supreme Purpose.—It is evident, from the principles already-presented, that he who fails to set before himself God and his will, ashis guide and standard in all the planning and execution of the workof life, belittles and degrades himself; and, by
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