motions of the sun and the moon and the stars. Its lines and curves of motion are produced by its own locomotion, and all the skill and ingenuity upon the earth cannot alter one line or curve of its motion a single hair's breadth. They are as eternal as the eternal Spirit of God, who is the author of its motion. The prophet says, "And when they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed it; they turned not as they went."
Our fifth proposition is, that Daniel says that this man's body also was like the beryl. Ezekiel says that the color of the wheels was of the color of a beryl stone. Now what is beryl? Beryl is a mineral. Your body and mine, and every other man's body that belongs to Adam's race, was made out of the dust of the ground: "Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return." But here is a man, and his body is also like the beryl; it is not like a body that is made out of the dust of the ground, but it is like a body that is made out of the minerals of the ground.
Beryl, among the minerals or metals, was dis-
