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: THE HARMONY Of DIVINE TRUTH TRUTH IN DOCTRINE. The Bible contains a system of Doctrines. Those are as true as the Bible itself, and one doctrine is as true as another; but they are not all equally fundamental to the religion it inculcates. The plan of this work will lead me to confme myself more particularly to the doctrines which lie at the foundation. These will be considered under distinct Articles. ARTICLE I. There is Owe Only Living And Teue God, Possessed Of Infinite NATURAL AND MORAL "PERFECTIONS ; AND THE JEHOVAH OF THE SCRIPTURES IS THAT GoD. The first truth which presents itself to our view, on looking into the volume of inspiration, or of nature, is the existence and infinite perfection of God. This truth is the basis upon which all others stand ; for without it none of the rest could have had an existence. Had not this been true, there had been no religion either revealed or natural: for had there been no God to create, there would have been no creatures to adore him. But since it is an incontrovertible fact, that there is a dependent universe, it is certain there is a creating Power. That something has always existed, is as demonstrable as that there id existence at the present time; for non-entity cannot originate being. It Is easy to account for the existence of the world we inhabit, and all those which are spread out before us in the heavens, when once wehave adopted the sentiment, that there is a God, whose existence is without beginning, and whose ability both to plan and execute, are without any limits. The visible universe, especially that portion of it which falls within our more immediate observation, while it is manifestly the product of unlimited skill and power, seems, in the most of its parts, to be wholly unconscious of its own e...