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creatures. Without Him they are but carcases, 

 deformed, useless, vain, insignificant, and very 

 nothings," 



Let us then adopt the language of the psalmist : 



" Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised ; 

 And his greatness is unsearchable. 

 One generation shall praise thy works to another, 

 And shall declare thy mighty acts." PSALM cxlv. 3, 4. 



And well will it be for every servant of the Most 

 High to add to the utterance of these words, the 

 devout resolution of their inspired author : 



" I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, 

 And of thy wondrous works." VERSE 5. 



For the truly Christian mind, the task on which 

 we have now entered must have a peculiar and 

 transcendent interest. Nothing is more clear on 

 the page of revelation, than that the Saviour, in 

 whose atoning blood and perfect righteousness he 

 implicitly trusts, whom, though unseen, he supremely 

 loves, and whose example he is constantly concerned 

 to imitate, is the Creator of the universe. In the 

 love which so condescendingly and graciously 

 bends towards us, we discern his infinite majesty ; 

 in the eye which melted over our woe, his infinite 

 knowledge ; and in the arm which brought salvation, 

 his almighty power. 



" Lo, this is our God ; 

 We have waited for him, and he will save us." ISAIAH xxv. 9. 



If, therefore, all things that are in heaven and in 

 earth were created by the Lord Jesus, he must have 



