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consciously execute and cannot exceed, for He 

 saith to them, as to the raging sea, Hitherto shall 

 ye come and no further, and here shall the work 

 of destruction cease. 



We have a remarkable instance of this special 

 guidance and employment of natural objects in 

 the case of the prophet Jonah, when he diso- 

 beyed the word of the Lord. In the first place 

 God sent out a great wind into the sea ; in the 

 next he prepared a great fish to swallow him 

 alive when he should be cast overboard, and at 

 the Lord's command the same animal cast him 

 upon the dryland. Next God prepared a gourd 

 for a shadow against the heat ; after that he 

 prepared a worm which destroyed the gourd ; 

 and in the last place he prepared a silent east 

 wind, 1 or a heat, like the sirocco, without sound. 

 In all these cases the object employed was a 

 physical object, under the immediate direction 

 of the Deity. The wind, the fish, the gourd, the 

 worm, the heat, were not new creations, but 

 well known objects, acted upon to take a parti- 

 cular direction so as to produce particular events. 



By what is here said, I by no means assert 

 the doctrine of inevitable fate, for then there 

 would be no use in the employment of means 

 of prevention. Sir H. Davy's safety-lamp would 

 not preserve the life of the miner, nor Dr. Frank- 



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