“Then you do not believe that God is infinite!”
“I do.”
“How can you? Is he not the Lord God merciful and gracious?”
“I am glad you know that.”
“But if his mercy and his graciousness are not infinite, then he is not infinite!”
“There are other attributes in which he is infinite.”
“But he is not infinite in all his attributes? He is partly infinite, and partly finite!—infinite in knowledge and power, but in love, in forgiveness, in all those things which are the most beautiful, the most divine, the most Christ-like, he is finite, measurable, bounded, small!”
“I care nothing for such finite reasoning. I take the word of inspiration, and go by that!”
“Let me hear then,” said Donal, with an uplifting of his heart in prayer; for it seemed no light thing for Arctura which of them should show the better reason.
Now it had so fallen that the ladies were talking about the doctrine called Adoption when first they saw Donal; whence this doctrine was the first to occur to the champion of orthodoxy as a weapon wherewith to foil the enemy.