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ter, to contain eternal realities of heavenly truth, or a mere temporal detail of historical facts. Such is the interesting subject of our present decision, and the decision moreover rests between GOD and our own consciences. There never, therefore, was a time, or occasion, when Christians had more need to seek divine aid to help them to decide aright.
May then the spirit of GOD direct and enable us all to make the right determination! May we no longer listen to the dictates of that false and vain philosophy of the day, which would level the Word of GOD with the word of man, but rejecting all such impieties of human speculation and science, may we rather be disposed to listen to the unerring declarations of the eternal truth, which hath said, "The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life;"[1] and believing this to be the case, and that God will not, and cannot deceive us, may we in the next place be led, in the sincerity of deep humiliation and repentance, to cast ourselves at the feet of Him, who once "opened the understandings of His disciples, that they might understand the Scriptures,"[2] praying with the holy man of old, "Open thou mine eyes that I may see the wondrous things of thy law."[3] AMEN.
