Christian Theology - Media Sabda Org

mercy on those whose ignorance leads them to form prejudices against
the truth; but he confounds those who take them up through envy and
malice, and endeavour to communicate them to others.
The men who can despise and ridicule this sacred book are those who
are too blind to discover the objects presented to them by this brilliant
light, and are too sensual to feel and relish spiritual things.
The book of GENESIS is the most ancient record in the world; including
the history of two grand subjects, CREATION and PROVIDENCE; of each
of which it gives a summary, but astonishingly minute and detailed
account. From this book almost all the ancient philosophers, astronomers,
chronologists, and historians have taken their respective data; and all the
modern improvements and accurate discoveries in different arts and
sciences have only served to confirm the facts detailed by Moses; and to
show that all the ancient writers on these subjects have approached to or
receded from TRUTH and the phenomena of nature, in proportion as they
have followed the Mosaic history.
The works of Moses, we may justly say, have been a kind of text book
to almost every writer on geology, geography, chronology, astronomy,
natural history, ethics, jurisprudence, political economy, theology, poetry,
and criticism, from his time to the present day; books to which the
choicest writers and philosophers in pagan antiquity have been deeply
indebted, and which were the text books to all the prophets; books from
which the flimsy writers against divine revelation have derived their
natural religion and all their moral excellence; books written in all the
energy and purity of the incomparable language in which they are
composed; and finally, books which, for importance of matter, variety of
information, dignity of sentiment, accuracy of facts, impartiality,
simplicity, and sublimity of narration, tending to improve and ennoble the
intellect, and meliorate the physical and moral condition of man, have
never been equalled, and can only be paralleled by the GOSPEL of the Son
of God! Fountain of endless mercy, justice, truth, and beneficence! how
much are thy gifts and bounties neglected by those who do not read this