other ship, that they should come and help them; to teach us how much we stand in need of mutual help in the great work of salvation; but especially to instruct us, that the principles of a scientific faith, signified by Simon and his companions, can do nothing without charity and good works, figured by James and John, who were partners with Simon. Indeed, faith alone will never save us; neither can charity alone fit us for heaven, or good works alone give us any merit in the eye of the Lord. But when these graces act in union, and obedience to the commands of the great Saviour is constantly and willingly rendered, there is always help afforded by Him, and realization, at the same time, of inward peace and happiness, from the uses we render to each other. "None of us liveth to himself."
July Tenth.
PRESERVATION, PERPETUAL CREATION.
"In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth."—Gen. i. 1.
IT is a truth which the doctrines of the New Church have satisfactorily demonstrated, that God is in all time without time, and in all space without space. We ought not to think of limiting an Infinite Being, for that would be an attempt to un-deify him; and hence we ought not to assign particular limits to the creation of God, for that in some measure would be an attempt to restrain, or at least to confine, within bounds, the Divine love. Vast as the universe appears to be, it is but as a point in the great work of creation.
