The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . execute all such acts, as those organs in us are instru-mental in effecting. He is called the Father, because he is the creatorand supporter of man, and especially because he is the author of spir-itual life. He lifts up the light of his countenance when he mani-fests his presence and love (Psa. iv. 6), and he hides his face (Psa. ) when these blessings are withheld. In Gen. vi. 6, it is said, It repented the Lord that he had made man,i. e., he had no longer pleasure in his work, so unpleasing and unprofit-able had man
The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . execute all such acts, as those organs in us are instru-mental in effecting. He is called the Father, because he is the creatorand supporter of man, and especially because he is the author of spir-itual life. He lifts up the light of his countenance when he mani-fests his presence and love (Psa. iv. 6), and he hides his face (Psa. ) when these blessings are withheld. In Gen. vi. 6, it is said, It repented the Lord that he had made man,i. e., he had no longer pleasure in his work, so unpleasing and unprofit-able had man become by transgression. In Gen. xviii. 21, he says, I will go and see, to imply that he shouldexamine the doings of men before he condemned them. In Jer. vii. 13, he says, I spake unto you, rising up early and speak-ing, to imply the interest he felt in their welfare, and the care he hadtaken to instruct them. In Dan. iv. 35, it is said he doeth according to his will, , notcapriciously, but independently of men, and so as justly to require ourentire J. WINE BRENNER. Born 1797. Died 1860. EXPRESSIONS TAK1TN FROM JEWISH RITES. 171 Ti may be observed generally, that though there is some analogybetween the love and wisdom, the knowledge and holiness, which weascribe to God, and those same faculties in men, there is a gre?„t differ-ence between them. The faculties in God are infinitely more noble,though there is enough of resemblance in the expressions of each, tojustify the application of the same terms. Two remarks, in reference to the employment of this ana-logical language, are important. 260. (1.) The figures which are used in speaking of spiritualtruth are not used, as in common description, to give such termsan unnatural greatness or dignity to the objects they fLe^atefdescribe. The things represented have much more truth of reality and perfection in them, than the things by which werepresent them. It is so in all such language. The mindweighs arguments, a
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