THREE SORTS OF ANALOGIES. 991 
same law. Hence we discover three sorts of analo- 
gies pervading the system of nature, in the widest 
and most exalted application of the term: the first 
regards the spiritual truths of revelation ; the second, 
those which belong only to the moral system; while 
the third are drawn from the phenomena of the ma- 
terial world. It would be foreign to our present 
purpose, did we here recapitulate the chief argu- 
ments by which the first and the second of these 
analogies have been so frequently and effectually 
illustrated; but in reference to what has been 
already said on the connection of the truths of 
natural history with those of religion, we cannot 
withhold from the reader the sound and philosophic 
reasonings of an author whom we have already so 
largely quoted, and whose arguments are peculiarly 
valuable to our present purpose, as being those not 
of a naturalist, but of a deep and original thinker, 
who, in making them, seems unconscious how appli- 
cable they are to legitimate science. 
(202.) In maintaining the first proposition just 
stated, viz. that analogy establishes a connection 
between the truths of Scripture and the facts of 
nature, our author justly remarks that in so doing 
we must “refer each to that state of things with 
which it is immediately connected. We must ex- 
amine whether, when all those circumstances which 
may naturally be supposed to produce the observed 
difference in the actual developement of theological 
truth, according as it belongs to the system of 
nature or that of grace, are taken into our consider- 
ation, the same abstract truth emerges as the point 
of ultimate coincidence. For if nothing appears to 
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