"Made manifest, outwardly and beautifully"

From Richard Warner's The Sermon on the mount; in five discourses (1840) - five sermons preached "on several successive Sunday afternoons" - a statement of why faith must bear fruit in love:

the seat of true religion, is in the heart: where repentance for past sin: Faith in the only Saviour: the spirit of holiness: and the gospel grace of brotherly love; for ever dwell - unseen, indeed, by mortal eye, and visible only to the all seeing eye of God - but - made manifest to man, outwardly, and beautifully; in the substantial form of acts of repentance; faith: hope: and charity - in tokens of sorrow for numberless demerits: in a zealous exercise of "good works": and in earnest longings, desires, and strivings, to imitate, towards our brethren in the flesh, (though in an infinitely less degree) the unfathomable; unbounded; and impartial, mercy, compassion, and love, of "our Father which is in Heaven" - the most glorious of his eternal attributes: and (to lost and sinful man) the most consolatory of his divine perfections.

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