The Royal Exchange and the Palace of Industry
by Thomas Binney (9781458999979)

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: MODERN MISBELIEF. 15 machine, and God as the central and pervading force, and that this machine, in the course of its ceaseless and everlasting action, and in the process of its varied movements from eternity, has happened, or contrived, to grind out thought along with other things, and to fill worlds with persons (or what seem to be such) as well as with form and colour, and the different objects of material existence In reference to such a theory, we may appropriately adopt the words of the psalmist, which stand in immediate connexion with those already quoted. " Understand, ye brutish among the the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise? ?The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity." Creation. But the words of the Inscription, read in connexion with the second verse of the psalm from which it is taken, further illustrate the ideas adverted to?God's existence, personality, and distinction from the universe?by placing the fact of his ownership of the earth, on the16 CREATION. previous fact of his having created it. "The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods." God is thus distinctly recognised as the Creator of all things, and as hence becoming, or being, their proprietor, by necessary consequence. That the universe is a creation, in the most strict and literal sense of the word, is the teaching of the Bible;?a truth which, while leading to that of his universal proprietorship of the earth and the world, as necessarily implies and strikingly illustrates his own distinct independence and personality: " Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of thi...

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