alone that can give you light and knowledge. He is the fountain of wisdom. If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God. In heaven there is perfect and endless light. In hell there is total and eternal darkness. Your minds must now be made light in the Lord. The mind of man, before he is renewed by divine grace, is like as the earth was when God first made it." Without form and void."--All is confusion within your minds, darkness fills the soul, so that you can neither see your danger nor the way of escape from this darkness. It is God alone that can give you this light. He can open the eyes of your mind. He can bring you out of darkness into his marvellous light. Pray that God would enlighten your minds more and more, that he would open your eyes, that you may behold wondrous things out of his law. The Lord Jesus Christ is a light to lighten the Gentiles. You are Gentiles. Let him be your light.. Behold him not only as the Star in the East, but as the Sun of Righteousness. Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. Shun those deeds which are evil. Repent of all your works of darkness, Remember, God can see you in the

dark.

dark. He is present with you at night as well as by day. The day and the night are both alike to him.

Amen.

A HYMN.

The Creation of the World.

NOW let a spacious world arise,
Said the Creator Lord-

At once the obedient earth and skies
Rose at his sov'reign word.

Dark was the deep the waters lay,
Confus'd and drown'd the land;
He, called the LIGHT, the new-born day
Attends on his command.

He bids the clouds ascend on high,

The clouds ascend, and bear
A watery treasure to the sky,
And float on softer air.

The liquid element below

Was gathered by his hand;

The rolling seas together flow,

And leave the solid land,

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LECTURE

LECTURE III.

ON THE CREATION OF THE WORLD.

GEN. 1. 1. In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth.

IT may be there is one among my young

hearers that cannot read in the Bible. You are eager to know, how the work of creation goes on. You have heard what God made the first day, and what he made the second day. You are eager to know what he made the third day. Such a desire ought to be gratified, because I will suppose that you do not ask out of mere curiosity, but to increase your knowledge of what God is, and what he has done. You have heard his Name. Are you not ready to say,

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"His name just learn'd, his name I love.

"How sweet it is to know,

"That God who made the Worlds above,

"Made me and all below."

We proceed to inform you what God made on the THIRD DAY.

3rd Day's work. Having divided the hea

vens and the earth, he now divides the earth into LAND and WATER. "And God said, let the waters under the heaven be gathered together into one place and let the dry land. appear, and it was so." "And God called the dry land earth, and the gathering together of the waters called he seas." How good was God thus to divide the land from the water, when they were both mixed together they were useless-when seperated, they became the abode of the creatures which were suited to them. "And God saw that it was good." God gathered or drained the waters from the earth, and caused the waters to go into one place, into those beds or hollows which he had prepared to receive them. The mountains began to shew themselves, and the waters filled up the vallies between. Thus seas, rivers and lakes were formed. The sea is salt and constantly in motion by the tides. Thus that vast body of water is preserved from becoming putrid. Thus the inhabitants of the most distant parts of the World are enabled to hold a friendly intercourse with each other. Thus they carry on trade and commerce between each other by means of ships.

Thus

Thus the teas of China, the muslins of India, the spices of Ceylon, the gold dust and ivory of Africa, sugar and rum of the West Indies, are carried to England. Thus the Madeira wine is brought from an island of that name. die. The land was made that man might dwell thereon, and build himself an habitation to live in; but it was barren as well as dry, till God said, "Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself upon the earth, and it was so." Having prepared the earth for bear ing fruit in obedience to God's command, the earth was no sooner made than it became fruitful and brought forth grass for the cattle, and herb for the service of man.*

There is now no one spot on the earth so absolutely unfruitful as the whole face of it was, before this command was given. These appear to have been produced in a state of perfection, and laden with their different fruits. Provision was also made for

the

*We know of 17 kinds of grass, and 18,000 sorts of plants.