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: what it would have been, had we never heard of a God, nor of a Savior, nor of the Holy Spirit, the Sanctifier ! How should our souls magnify the Lord, and bless his holy name, for the gift of his word, which is a lamp unto our feet, and a light unto our path ! 2. How sinful and deplorable is the state of those who are determined never to oelieve in divine revelation ; but to rely on their own wisdom and goodness for the hope of final happiness ! As certainly as there is a Savior, and they continue to reject him, they must perish forever. How fervently should christians pray for unbelievers! " Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." Amen. ESSAY III. The perfections of God. In the last essay, proof has been offered, of the divine inspiration of the holy scriptures. We may now proceed, by the light of scripture and reason, to an illustration and proof of The Perfections Of God. " As for God, his way is perfect." Equally perfect is his nature. To exhibit a clear illustration and proof of the divine perfections ; a distinction will be made between those which are called natural, and those which are called moral perfections. The natural perfections of God, consist in his eternity, immutability, omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence, invisibility and independence. Of all the moral perfections of God, holiness or goodness is the sum and substance. But his goodness consists in justice, lnercy, spiritual wisdom, truth, and faithfulness. In the arrangement which has been made of the natural perfections of God, the first to be considered, is his eternity. And that he is, in the strictest sense, eternal, absolutely without beginning or end, or any limitation.is evident from this consideration, that if it ever was the case, that he had no existence, it was imposs...