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away ; and those to whom it has been permitted 
to be the humble instruments of their promnlga- 
tion, and who have steadily persevered, under the 
firm assurance that " Truth can never be op- 
posed to Truth," and that the works of God when 
rightly understood, and viewed in their true rela- 
tions, and from a right position, would at length 
be found to be in perfect accordance with his 
Word, are now receiving their high reward, in 
finding difficulties vanish, objections gradually 
withdrawn, and in seeing the evidences of Geology 
admitted into the list of witnesses to the truth of 
the great fundamental doctrines of Theology.* 
The whole course of the enquiry which we have 
now conducted to its close, has shewn that the 
physical history of our globe, in which some 
have seen only Waste, Disorder, and Confusion, 
teems with endless examples of Economy, and 
Order, and Design ; and the result of all our 
researches, carried back through the unv/ritten 
records of past time, has been to fix more steadily 
* One of the most distinguished and powerful Theological 
writers of our time, who about 20 years ago devoted a chapter of 
his work on the Evidence of the Christian Revelation, to the refuta- 
tion of what he then called '' the Scepticism of Geologists," has in 
his recent publication on Natural Theology, commenced his consi- 
derations respecting the origin of the world, with what he now 
terms *' The Geological argument in behalf of a Deity." Chal- 
mer's Natural Theology, V. I. p. 229. Glasgow, 1835. 
For Dr. Chalmers's interpretation of Genesis i. 1. et seq. see 
Edinburgh Christian Instructor, April, 1814. 
