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the defect must lie in our own ignorance of the 

 operations of Providence, anil not in the word 

 of God ; and hence the argument extends in its 

 conclusions far beyond the isolated fact which 

 it is brought to establish/ 



On the whole, . although it be true that natur- 

 ahtheology is something distinct from revealed 

 theology, yet the enquiring mind cannot fail to 

 perceive, not only in the discoveries which the 

 former makes, but also in the very deficiences 

 which it exhibits, such circumstances as form a 

 most powerful auxiliary to the argument in sup- 

 port of the latter; 'and he, who has attended 

 with a candid and intelligent mind to the light 

 which the progress of science and human re- 

 search has thrown, and is throwing, on this most 

 important of all enquiries, can find no reason to 

 doubt, that, in the further advancement of know- 

 ledge, difficulty after difficulty will disappear, and 

 revealed religion will be ultimately found, in all 

 its truths and in all its bearings, to correspond 

 with the discoveries of the naturalist, and the 

 clearest dictates of sound philosophy. 



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