CHAPTER IV. 



MANIFESTED IN THE GOVERNMENT OF GOJX 



V||.j HE Government of God will next occupy 

 ^P our attention. It is with reverence that Ave 

 would speak of the ' ' ways of God. " He is a Gov- 

 ernor as certainly as He is a Father. He has 

 His laws with appropriate penalties attached to 

 their disregard. What He does is right. We 

 cannot reason to Him. We must content our- 

 selves to reason from Him. Our surest knowl- 

 edge of His judgments must come through His 

 revelation. There we discern that "justice and 

 judgment are the habitations of his throne." 



He is described by inany expressions which 

 prove Him to be a Law-Giver. The history of 

 God's ways with the children of men is also a 

 history of law. The human family, and particu- 

 larly that nation which was the chosen medium 

 of His truth, know God as a law-abiding and 

 law-exacting being. 



The first stroke of the inspired pen gives us an 

 account of man legally related to God. If mercy 

 is the enemy of justice, there can be no explana- 

 tion to the death penalty pronounced upon 



