NORTHERN MEMOIRS. 11 



teriour objects, we but inamour ourselves with 

 our own similitudes. Judg of the consequence. 



Am. Is the law of nature a standing rule or 

 no ? If it be a rule, it ought to be obeyed ; for 

 it is natural in kind to answer kind. 



Tkeoph. Can nature, as nature, exert our zeal, 

 to stir up in us the lively act of Faith ? Surely 

 faith is no part of creational work ; it's rather 

 a bough or branch that buds up from regenera- 

 tion. The excellency, therefore, of the things 

 that are, are not of themselves, but dependent 

 on some other, infinitely more glorious. Such is 

 the Creator. 



Arn. He that made the world had no need of 

 assistance ; but all things that are made were 

 made by him alone. Creational work, therefore, 

 was discovering hidden ideas, and making invi- 

 sibles to appear visible. 



Tkeoph. God, the Creator, made himself ma- 

 nifest in time, by his glorious act of power in 

 creating ; who, by his eternal wisdom and pro- 

 vidence, upholds it that it drops not asunder. 



Arn. That's manifest by the eye of sense ; 

 but he that sees by the eye of faith, sees beyond 

 the creation, for he sees the Creator ; and, in see- 

 ing him, he sees his Redeemer. 



Theaph. Why then struggle we so hard after 

 superficial knowledg, to defeat ourselves by the 

 dull prospect of sense ; for if, when to create in- 



