12 THE CREATOR AND LORD OF THE UNIVERSE. 



a right to the most unqualified property in them. As 

 he is " Head over all things," he demands the highest 

 love of all his intelligent and rational creatures. 



" Whom have I in heaven hut thee ? 

 And there is none upon earth that I desire heside thee," * 



should therefore be the language of every heart. 

 And well is it when the study of any part of His 

 works affords to his disciples a stimulus to gratitude 

 and confidence ; while a sense of the necessity of a 

 more full revelation than that of nature, leads others 

 to the belief of the gospel, through the operation of 

 the Holy Spirit, and to an entire reliance on that 

 Saviour, who, because he was " obedient unto death, 

 even the death of the cross," is " highly exalted," and 

 has " a name which is above every name."f 



* Psalm Ixxiii. 25. f Philippians ii. 8. 



