GOD has been pleased to make three great revelations of Himself to man: his Works; his Word; and his Son, and these revelations have been progressive in character. Nature, the Law, the Gospel; a silent material universe, an inspired Book, a living God-man; these are the three great steps that have led from the death and darkness of sin to that knowledge of the true God which is eternal life.
—H. Grattan Guinness (11 August 1835 – 21 June 1910, Nonconformist Protestant pastor, evangelist, and author).