"Once the truth of the gospel is, by this divine and supernatural light, made known to the mind, all sorts of other biblical truths are seen. For example, once one is persuaded of the glory of the gospel, he sees the exceeding evil of sin, "for the same eye that discerns the transcendent beauty of holiness, necessarily therein sees the exceeding odiousness of sin: the same taste which relishes the sweetness of true moral good, tastes the bitterness of moral evil. And by this means a man sees his own sinfulness and loathsomeness; for he has now a sense to discern objects of this nature; and so sees the truth of what the word of God declares concerning the exceeding sinfulness of mankind, which before he did not see." Indeed, one can see the whole of the biblical revelation, for once a sense of true divine beauty is imparted to the soul, the believer discerns the beauty of every part of the gospel scheme. (Signs of the Spirit, 105)
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