INTENDED TO SHOW The Prophetic Character OF THE WHOLE OF THE DIVINE REVELATION. BY J. T. LONDON: BOSWORTH AND HARRISON, 215, REGENT STREET. 1858. 101.0.498. INTRODUCTORY LECTURE. ON THE NECESSITY OF DIVINE REVELATION. EVERY reflecting person must acknowledge that there is a God, and but One God-but one First Cause of all things. For it is unreasonable to suppose that any thing could create itself; the cause of its existence must be sought for in something better and higher than the mere creature-in a Creator. And when we consider the wonderful adaptation of one part of the creation to all its other parts, and how by this adaptation they are combined together as one whole, depending reciprocally upon each other for their mutual support, we are driven to the conclusion that the God who formed them and endowed them with these instincts, and bound them together by these laws, was a wise and provident Being, who could foresee consequences, and make provision for the continuance and well being of that creation which He had called into existence by His sovereign will. If a man should find a pebble upon a mountain, he might say that it came there by chance, and derived its form from accident: but if he should find a watch or any complicated machine in the same situation, he would not be warranted in ascribing its origin to B |