88 GLAUCUS; OR, 



but stooping to work in time and space, and there 

 rejoicing himself in the work of His own hands, 

 and in His eternal Sabbaths ceasing in rest in- 

 effable, that He may look on that wliich He hath 

 made, and behold it is very good. 



I speak, of course, under correction : for this 

 conclusion is emphatically matter of induction, and 

 must be verified or modified by ever-fresh facts : but 

 I meet with many a Christian passage in scientific 

 books, which seems to me 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 witness," in nature itself, that He is the God 

 of grace. Why speak of the God of nature and the 

 God of grace as two antithetical terms ? The Bible 

 never, in a single instance, makes the distinction ; 

 and surely, if God be (as He is) the Eternal and 

 Unchangeable One, and if (as we all confess) the 

 universe bears the impress of His signet, we have 

 no right, in the present infantile state of science, 

 to put arbitrary limits of our own to the revelation 

 which he may have thought good to make of Him- 



