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Martyn appears to have been most tenderly susceptible on this point. ‘So deep was his veneration for the word of God that, when a suspicion arose in his mind that any other book he might be studying was about to gain an undue influence on his affections, he instantly laid it aside; nor would he resume it till he had felt and realized the paramount excellence of the divine oracles. He could not rest satisfied till all those lesser lights that were beginning to dazzle him, had disappeared before the effulgence of the Scriptures.’ Life, p. 59.