LESSON XXV. 



ON LIGHT AND COLOURS. 



Behold the Light emitted from the sun ; 

 What more familiar, and what more unknown? 

 While by its spreading radiance it reveals 

 All nature face, it still itself conceals. 



BLACKMORE* 



God said, Let there be Light: and there was Light. 



MOSES. 



1 HE famous Longinus, in his treatise on the 

 Sublime in Writing, produces the above passage of 

 ihe inspired historian, as one of the most striking 

 he had ever met with. Its chief sublimity seems 

 to consist in a forcible declaration of the al- 

 mighty power of GOD. From this passage alone 

 we might inter, that to will, to sp^ak, and to ac- 

 complish, is all one with the DIITY; being an 

 essential part of his attribuies, without which he 

 would be imperfect. In the sacred record it is next 

 said, that " GOD saw the Ligli' that it was goodi" 

 and indeed we have the greatest reasons for think- 

 ing so. How good must that Light be, which en- 

 ables us to behold the heavens beautified with stars ; 

 and by means of which we can look around us, 

 and trace the numero.us wonders of the earth we 



inhabit,. 



