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Lord Almighty has constructed to make us wise unto salvation. 
Thus the endless number of connections in which the Truth of 
God is placed in the Bible, and the aptness with which it never 
fails to meet our spiritual wants and wishes, gives to “ its green 
pastures and its still waters ” that peculiar character of life and 
freshness which renders it another, and yet still the same. 
Now, if it be so — if it be plain that God in His works does not 
confine Himself to what we call regularity; if His Word be 
constructed not like the clipped and bordered garden, but with 
something of the wild luxuriance which distinguishes the works 
of Nature ; if its materials be thrown together with the careless 
grandeur in which the stars are sprinkled over the firmament, 
or the flowers over the enamelled field ; if it does really resemble 
the crust of the earth, not only in the apparent disorder, but in 
the wise foresight, the benevolent intention, and the wonder- 
ful and magnificent result — then its peculiar structure, coupled 
with this result, is so far from being an objection, that it is 
hardly possible to conceive a more beautiful or decisive proof of 
its Divine origin. 
The Archetype and its Modifications. 
15. It has been well observed by Professor Owen, that “of 
the nature of the creative acts by which the successive races of 
animals were called into being, we are ignorant. But this we 
know, that as the evidence of unity of plan testifies to the 
oneness of the Creator, so the modifications of the plan for 
different modes of existence, illustrate the beneficence of the 
Designer.”* 
16, In the natural history of the vertebrate animals there 
is evidence of a common typical structure. That is to say, 
we have a skeleton, which is, as it were, the model after which 
all other skeletons have been formed; some presenting a nearer, 
and some a more remote resemblance to the perfect type. An 
original standard with many modifications is the great law of 
Creation. The human face is a remarkable instance of this. Our 
limited faculties can hardly comprehend how, in such a narrow 
compass, such a variety of modifications, such diversity of lines 
and lineaments could possibly exist. One can hardly realize 
* Orr’s Circle of the Sciences , No. 2. 
