Demonstration of the truth of the Christian . thoseof diluvial or more recent volcanic deposites), succeeding theage of reptiles, and preceding that of man, set forth finally toview the beasts of the earth, and the cattle, and every creep-ing thing after their genera or kinds, till the whole work ofanimal creation was finished. And by a separate and lastact of creative power, magnified as such, the topstone, oncepointing to heaven, was formed and put over the wholeearthly fabric; and the work of creation here below wascrowned by that of man, when, though formed of the dust,the Lord
Demonstration of the truth of the Christian . thoseof diluvial or more recent volcanic deposites), succeeding theage of reptiles, and preceding that of man, set forth finally toview the beasts of the earth, and the cattle, and every creep-ing thing after their genera or kinds, till the whole work ofanimal creation was finished. And by a separate and lastact of creative power, magnified as such, the topstone, oncepointing to heaven, was formed and put over the wholeearthly fabric; and the work of creation here below wascrowned by that of man, when, though formed of the dust,the Lord breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and manbecame a living soul. And God saw everything that he hadmade, and, behold, it ivas very good. And there was evening andthere was morning the sixth day. The following diagram from Phillipss Geology (p. 44) willconvey an idea of the relative position and order of succes-sion of unstratified rock gg, of the-primary strata e d, of thesecondary c b, and of the tertiary a (t trap). N 146 THE AUTHENTICITY. Comparing these independent accounts, respectively writ-ten at the interval of three thousand years, and guarantiedby observations of the heavens and demonstrations in theearth, may we not conjoin the last verse of the first chap-ter of Genesis with the first verse of the second, and em-phatically say, Thus the heavens and the earth were finished,and all the host of them * And whose word is this but that oftheir Creator? The stars of our firmament are indeed a host, of which asmall part only is seen by the unaided human eye. Astron-omers, so far as they can, have shown its form, so as best toaccord with and explain the appearance of the heavens, asfaintly represented in Plate VI. f But He who from the be-ginning told man of their creation, can alone name them bytheir names, as he created them by his word, and brings themforth in their order. And from a diffused nebulosity, waterswithout form and void, spread throughout an inconce
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