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Rh O how would the face of the world become changed! instead of poverty and misery, there would arise comfort and content; instead of sin and suffering, there would be love, health, and happiness: earth would again become an Eden, and the angelic heaven above would be reflected in the human heaven below.

And now we come, in the next place, to consider some of the proofs of the Divine Wisdom, as exhibited in the volume of Holy Writ. And in the first place, what is the direct testimony which, in this His Word, God bears to Himself, on this point? For we are to keep in mind, that this is God Speaking: and whether He speak concerning Himself, or concerning men His creatures, or of the heaven and earth which He has made,—and whether He speak directly in the first person, "I," or whether He speak through the mouth of the Psalmist or others, it is still God speaking. Now what does this Word declare, in relation to the Divine Wisdom? "His understanding is infinite," says the Psalmist ; or, as the passage might be more exactly rendered, "there is no numbering (or measuring) His understanding." Again: "He knoweth the secrets of the heart." "He knoweth our frame: He remembereth that we are dust." "Yet they say, the Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it. Understand, ye brutish among the people, and ye foolish, when will ye be wise? He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed the eye, shall He not see? He that chastiseth the nations, shall not He correct? He that teacheth man