"He who is humbled for sin will value pardoning mercy the more. When there is nothing in the soul but clouds of sorrow, and now God brings a pardon— which is a setting up of a rainbow in the cloud, to tell the sinner that the flood of wrath shall not overflow him— oh, what joy there is at the sight of this rainbow! The soul that before was steeped in tears now melts in love to God (Luke 7:38,47)."