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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: CHAPTER III. GENERAL VIEWS OF NATURE CONTAINED IN THE HOLY /' SCRIPTURES. What if earth I Be but the shadow of Heaven, and things therein, Each to other like; more than on earth is thought. Miltor. Many persons may be disposed to concede the accurate delineation of natural facts open to human observation, claimed under the last head, who may not be prepared to find in these ancient books any general views akin to those of the ancient philosophers, or to those obtained by inductive processes in modern times. Yet views of this kind are scattered through the Hebrew and Christian scriptures, and it may be well to add to this preliminary inquiry a statement of them. They resolve themselves, almost as a matter of course, into the two leading ideas of order and adaptation. I have already quoted the eloquent admission by Baron Humboldt of the presence of these ideas of the cosmos in Psalm 104. They are both conspicuous in the narrative of creation, and equally so in a great number of other passages. Order is heaven's first law ; and the second is like unto it?that everything serves an end. This is the sum of all science. These are the two mites, even all that she hath, which she throws into the treasury of the Lord; and, as she does so in faith, Eternal Wisdomlooks on and approves the deed. These two mites, lawfully acquired by science, by her independent exertions, she may, however, recognise as of the same coinage with the treasure already laid up in the rich storehouse of the Hebrew literature; but in;i peculiar and complex form, which may be illustrated under the following general statements: ? 1. The scriptures assert invariable natural law, and constantly recurring cycles in nature. Natural law is expressed as the ordinance or decree of Jehovah. From th...
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