The whole course of the inquiry which we have now conducted to its close, has shown that the physical history of our globe, in which some have seen only Waste, Disorder, and Confusion, teems with endless examples of Economy, and Order, and Design; and the result of all our researches; carried back through the unwritten records of past time, has been to fix more steadily our assurance of the Existence of One supreme Creator of all things, to exalt more highly our conviction of the immensity of his Perfections, of his Might, and Majesty, his Wisdom, and Goodness, and all sustaining Providence; and to penetrate our understanding with a profound and sensible perception[1] of the "high Veneration man's intellect owes to God."[2]
The Earth from her deep foundations unites with the celestial orbs that roll through boundless space, to declare the glory and show forth the praise of their common Author and Preserver; and the voice of. Natural Religion accords harmoniously with the testimonies of Revelation, in ascribing the origin of the Universe to the will of One eternal, and dominant Intelligence, the Almighty Lord and supreme first cause of all things that subsist—"the same yesterday, to-day and for ever"—"before the Mountains were brought forth, or Ever the Earth and the World were made, God from everlasting and world without End."
of the world, with what he now terms "The Geological argument in behalf of a Deity." Chalmers's Natural Theology, V. I. p. 229. Glasgow, 1835.
For Dr. Chalmers's interpretation of Genesis i. 1. et seq. see Edinburgh Christian Instructor, April, 1814.
