How to be Happy, What the Remedy is which alone can afford Relief to an Agitated Conscience

1.  It is clear that the remedy must contain elements of relief adapted to counteract the elements of distress.

There is a remedy for an evil conscience revealed to us which has been tried innumerable times, and in the worst cases, and in every variety of circumstances; and myriads, even when quitting the world, have borne testimony to its thorough efficacy.

The virtue of some medicines was first discovered by an accidental observation of their effects, but afterwards by analysing their component parts, reasons could be adduced showing why they are adapted to certain diseases.

Some, in like manner, have experienced the powerful effects of the remedy which we have in view, and when they afterwards, in their calm hours, studied the Scriptures and the character of God, they saw reasons showing its complete adaptation to the purpose.