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one is found verified in the other, as far as fulfillment has taken place, and that corroboration of evidence which is clearly ascertained enlivens our hopes with regard to the fulfillment of all the rest. We thus un- derstand the scriptures of the Old and New Testa- ments to be the two great witnesses which stand by the God of the whole earth.

In the holy scriptures, from the very commence- ment to their close, we have revelations of the will and purposes of God, upon which, when understood, we may safely depend for certain fulfillment, as in— stanced in the exact fulfillment, by Jesus Christ, of all the things that were written concerning him, in the law of Moses, in the prophets and in the Psalms. For God is righteous in all his ways and wise in all his counsels, and unchangeable in all his purposes and decrees ; and he wants not the power for the exe- cution of the counsels of his will, for he is the Al— mighty God and changeth not. And therefore we are to believe that all things must have been unal- terably fixed in his all-comprehensive mind from all eternity, so as not to be carried away with unworthy views and ideas of the unchangeable attributes of the eternal Jehovah ; and not to embrace the too common sceptical notions of things depending on circum- stances, incidentalities and casuistries: no doubt we must do justice to the doctrine of cause and effect, but the Great First Cause of all things must not be lost sight of in any part of our conclusions: there- fore in handling the word of God, God must be in all our thoughts, so that we may be able to trace every-

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