their host by number: He calleth them all by names, by the greatness of His might, for that He is strong in power: not one faileth. Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speaketh, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God? Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of His understanding."[1]
Is not this sublime language? Is not this Divine language? Is not this God Speaking, and bearing witness of Himself in a style worthy of Himself? And He must bear witness of Himself, because there is no one else able to bear fit witness of Him. He alone knows Himself. And hence we may perceive the importance, the absolute necessity of Revelation—of a direct Revelation from God. Without such a Revelation, we could know little or nothing—nothing with certainty—concerning subjects of the first interest and importance to man: subjects, such as these: Who made man, and what is his destination? Whence did he come, and whither is he going, and what is the purpose of his being? Without direct Revelation, we could know nothing with certainty concerning God, concerning heaven, or the blissful unseen world for which that God has created us, or concerning the way thither and the means to reach that happy end. In a word, we should be completely in the dark on all those subjects which are in the highest rank of thought, and yet of the most immediate and practical interest to every man that lives. We speak of the "light of nature;" but what is the light of nature in reference to
- ↑ Isaiah xl. 12—28.
