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and in His eternal Sabbaths ceasing in rest in- 

 effable, that He may look on that which He hath 

 made, and behold it is very good. 



"We speak, of course, under correction ; for 

 this conclusion is emphatically matter of induc- 

 tion, and must be verified or modified by ever- 

 fresh facts : but we meet Avith many a Christian 

 passage in scientific books, which seems to us to 

 go, not too far, but rather not far enough, in 

 asserting the God of the Bible, as Saint Paul 

 says, " not to have left Himself without wit- 

 ness," in nature itself, that He is the God of 

 grace. Why speak of tlie God of nature and 

 tlic God of grace as two antitlietical terras ? 

 The IJiblc never, in a single instance, makes the 

 distinction ; juid, surely, if God be (as He is) 

 the Eternal and Unchangeable One, .ind if (as 

 wc all confess) the universe bears the impress of 

 Ili.s signet, we have no right, in the present infan- 

 tile state of science, to put arljitrary limits of our 

 own to tlic revelation whicli Ho may Iiave thought 

 good to make of Himself in nature. Nay, ratlier, 

 let us believe that, if our eyes were opened, wc 

 should fulfil tlie n(|uiremcnt of Genius, to " see 

 tlie universal in tlic particular," by seeing God's 

 uhol(; likenc'-;, Ili-s wboln glory, reflected as in a 



