REV. DR. BAYLEY,

Minister of Argyle Square Church, King's Cross, London.

TEXTS:

"Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens
are the work of thy hands. They shall perish.”—Psalm cii., 25, 26.

COMPARED WITH

"Who laid the foundation of the earth that it should not be removed
for ever."--Psalm civ., 5.

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LIST OF SUBJECTS:

No. 1.-Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish.-Psalm cii. 25, 26. COMPARED WITH Who laid the foundations of the earth that it should not be removed for ever.Psalm civ. 5.

No. 2.-What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly.-Micah vi. 8. COMPARED WITH And the Lord commended the unjust Steward.-Luke xvi. 8.

No. 3.-God is angry with the wicked every day.-Psalm vii. 11. COMPARED WITH Fury is not in me.-Isaiah xxvii, 4.

No. 4.-God is not a man that He should lie; neither the son of man that He should repent.-Numbers xxiii. 19. COMPARED WITH And it repented the Lord that He had made man on the earth, and it grieved Him at His heart.-Genesis vi. 6. No. 5.-I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the father upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.Exodus xx. 5. COMPARED WITH The soul that sinneth it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son.-Ezekiel xviii. 20.

No. 6.-Honour thy father and thy mother.-Exodus xx. 12. COMPARED WITH If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.-Luke xiv. 26.

No. 7.-Moreover whom He did predestinate, them He also called; and whom He called, them He also justified; and whom He justified, them He also glorified.Romans viii. 30. COMPARED WITH Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.-Matthew xviii. 14. No. 8. For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife and they twain shall be one flesh.-Matthew xix. 5, 6. COMPARED WITH So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.-1 Corinthians vii. 38.

No. 9.-Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the Lord He is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.-Deuteronomy iv. 30. COMPARED WITH Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.-Matthew xxviii. 19.

No. 10.-I, even I, am He that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.-Isaiah xliii. 25. COMPARED WITH For God so loved the world, that He sent His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.-John iii. 16.

No. 11. And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh I shall see God.-Job xix. 26. COMPARED WITH Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.-1 Corinthians, xv. 50.

No. 12.-Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith, without the deeds of the law. -Romans iii. 28. COMPARED WITH Ye see then how by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.-James ii. 24.

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LECTURE I.

"Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish."-Psalm cii., 25, 26.

COMPARED WITH

"Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever."-Psalm civ., 5.

EVERY patient student of science knows that nature is constantly presenting PARADOXES. Nature has few straight lines. There are complications, and what appears to superficial minds to be contradictions, everywhere.

How small the sun appears, yet how vast it is! how large the earth seems, yet in comparison with the universe how small it really is. How fixed do we conceive the rocks on which we build to be, yet are they as parts of the earth, in most rapid motion. Solid things are usually regarded as heavier than liquid, yet ice is lighter than water. Cold commonly makes objects shrink into less compass, yet frozen water expands and will burst rocks and even cannon. So, throughout every domain of nature and of life, there are found paradoxes apparently inconsistent with law, yet they are not really so. Patient study shows that the apparent contradiction points to some deeper law, some wider, grander view of things, and when this larger generalization is obtained the seeming perplexity disappears.

This characteristic of the works of God prevails also in the Word of God. Things there, as in nature, are not always what they seem; and probably for the same reason the difficulties in nature excite enquiry, call forth exertion, and make man a far nobler being than he would be if his whole life were one of ease and smoothne The wrestler, whose

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