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the sole source of all action in His creation, for “ in Him 
we live and move, and have our being (Ton yap xal yivo g iapiv), 
for we are also His offspring.” Compare the instruction in 
the 139th Psalm. 
Hence man’s duty to be content with the arrangements 
of God in society, and subject to those whom God has set 
over him. Hence the guilt of self-murder, and the command 
that whosoever sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood 
be shed. 
In the providential dispensations, man is appointed in 
the place of God as magistrate or judge to care for the 
honour of the God whom he serves. Hence there is reflected 
upon him something of the gloiy of Elohim, as in the 
22nd Psalm, “ God standeth in the congregation of the 
mighty ; He judgeth among the Elohim.” 
So that God associates man with Himself in the administra- 
tion of justice. Man is to be the destroyer of his fellow-man 
when he violates God’s laws, for the magistrate beareth not 
the sword in vain. This shows God’s watchful care for His 
own glory, and for the good of His creatures, as the basis of 
civil government. 
There seems to be a clear intimation in Scripture of the 
character of anti-Christian effort to set aside all rule and 
authority, to overthrow the sanctity of marriage, and to intro- 
duce universal licentiousness. The “ dreamers ” are de- 
nounced in Jude as bringing in this threefold mischief* (v. 8) : 
ovtol tvwrrviaZoptvoi aapxa plv piaivovai, KVpioTi)Ta St C10£- 
Tovm, So^a c St (dXaacprjpovaiv. 
The dream of Evolution in so far coincides with the dreams 
of the Gnostics, the Nicolaitanes,t and others, as it tends to 
destroy in the conscience of mankind all thought of the 
sacredness of human life, and of the dignity of man’s position 
in Creation. Although the teachers may not intend this, it 
is certain their scholars in the masses of mankind will, unless 
restrained by the civil power, carry out in practice a state of 
things similar to that described above. Why, then, proceed 
with their self-chosen occupation of unsettling the minds of 
the multitude, and destroying the old belief in Creation and 
Providence, giving us nothing in return but a mechanical 
self-evolving universe, presided over by blind fate ! 
* See Smith’s Die. of the Bible, — Nicholas, Nicolaitanes. 
f If this trinity of evil be indeed worthy to be established, let homage be 
paid unto it ; but, if otherwise, let us not become heathens by inadvertence* 
and worshippers of a three -faced Baal under new disguises. 
