joy, the glory and blessing of every life.  Ask what Christ is?  He is the universal remedy of all evil broken forth in nature and creature.  He is the destruction of misery, sin, darkness, death, and hell.  He is the resurrection and life of all fallen nature.  He is the unwearied compassion, the long-suffering pity, the never-ceasing mercifulness of God to every want and infirmity of human nature.  He is the breathing forth of the heart, life, and Spirit of God into all the dead race of Adam.  He is the seeker, the finder, the restorer of all that was lost and dead to the life of God.’[567] Law utterly rejected the possibility of Divine love contradicting the highest conceptions which man can form of it; and he turned with horror from the arbitrary sovereignty suggested in the Calvinistic scheme.  Nations or individuals, he said, might be chosen instruments for special designs, but ‘elect’ ordinarily meant ‘beloved.’  In any other sense the evil nature only in every man is reprobated, and that which is divine in him elected.[568] ’The goodness and love of God,’ he asserted, ’have no limits or bounds, but such as His omnipotence hath.’[569] It was indeed conceivable that there may be spirits of men or fallen angels that have so totally lost every spark of the heavenly nature, and have become so essentially evil, that restoration is no more consistent with their innermost nature than for a circle to have the properties of a straight line.  If not, ’their restoration is possible, and they will infallibly have all their evil removed out of them by the goodness of God.’[570] Christianity, he said, is the one true religion of nature, because man’s corrupt state ’absolutely requires two things as its only salvation.  First, the Divine life must be revived in the soul of man.  Secondly, there must be a resurrection of the body in a better state after death.’[571] That religion only can be sufficient to the want of his nature which can provide this salvation.  God’s redeeming love, said Law, will not suffer the sinner to have rest or peace until, in time or in eternity, righteousness is restored and purification completed.[572] He expressed in the strongest language his belief that ’every act of what is called Divine vengeance, recorded in Scripture, may and ought, with the greatest strictness of truth, to be called an act of the Divine love.  If Sodom flames and smokes with stinking brimstone, it is the love of God that kindled it, only to extinguish a more horrible fire.  It was one and the same infinite love, when it preserved Noah in the ark, when it turned Sodom into a burning lake, and overwhelmed Pharaoh in the Red Sea.’[573] If God did not chastise sin, that lenience would argue that He was not all love and goodness towards man.  And so far from its being a lessening of the just ‘terrors of the Lord,’ to say that His punishments, however severe, are inflicted not in vengeance but in love, such wholesome terrors are placed on more certain ground.  Every work of piety is turned into a work of love; but from the licentious all false and idle hopes are taken away, and they must know that there is ’nothing to trust to as a deliverance from misery but the one total abolition of sin.’[574]