INTRODUCTION. 



THE Works of God and the Word of God 

 may be called the two doors which open into 

 the temple of Truth ; and, as both proceed 

 from the same Almighty and Omniscient 

 Author, they cannot, if rightly interpreted, 

 contradict each other, but must mutually 

 illustrate and confirm, " though each in dif- 

 ferent sort and manner," the same truths. 

 Doubtless it was with this conviction upon 

 his mind, that the learned Professor, 1 from 

 whom I have borrowed my motto, expresses 

 his opinion that in order rightly to under- 

 stand the voice of God in nature, we ought to 

 enter her temple with the Bible in our hands. 

 The prescribed object of the several trea- 

 tises, of which the present forms one, is the 

 illustration of the Power, Wisdom, and Good- 



1 The pious Heinrich Moritz Gaede, Professor of Natural 

 History in the University of Liege. 



