The Evangelical Repository - 1865 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: not only can see, but they were curiously formed, just as they are, that they might see. So with all the marvellous organs of those bodies of ours which are fear... more »fully and wonderfully made; as well as with those huge masses or orbs that roll in the immensity of space. Every thing has its own end, for which it was designed; and that end it fulfills. And all the parts of the vast creation have been put together by a free intelligent mind, that, as a whole, it might stand as a temple whose builder and whose maker is the living and true God. Two conclusions have been suggested by the subject considered. The first is that there is much concerning God of which we know but little, and that a science of his being is at present to man not possible. Things which we can apprehend we may not be able to comprehend and know to the full. This to us should be no matter of sorrow nor regret; for it opens up to us a glorious and interminable vista of research for the future. The second conclusion is, that we have much need of the Bible as a revelation of what God is and is to us. How refreshing to the soul to turn from the works and reasonings of man to the simple and sublime statements of the word of God. We must plunge into a labyrinth of reasonings and doublings, if we leave the light of inspired truth. Its teachings, properly understood, are the profoundest philosophy. Its representations of God are the highest, the holiest, and the best adapted to the race in its present condition. With this conviction let us study it more earnestly and prayerfully than we have done before, and then we shall know more fully that its doctrines are truly divine. W. A—P. PRACTICAL EXPOSITION OF THE SECOND CHAPTER OF THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS. Verse 10. For it became Him, for whom are all things and by...« less