silence acknowledged a defeat. Moreover, each age brings some new modification of infidelity, and truth is being continually re-enforced and fortified by new accessions from science. As the volume of Nature becomes unrolled and deciphered, its testimony for a Divine Author becomes more distinct and emphatic. That testimony should be adduced, expounded, and applied, so that men, in each successive age, may perceive that true Philosophy is the handmaid of Religion; that the voice of Nature echoes an harmonious response to the oracles of Revelation; and that the heavens and the earth, as their marvels become unfolded, assert the existence and show forth the glory of God.
We hope this edition will be found somewhat superior to its predecessor. In the Second Edition the entire argument on the existence of God was re-constructed, four new chapters were added, and others have now been revised and extended. The argument, also, on the Divine attributes was strengthened by a new chapter on the wisdom of God; and the chapter containing answers to objections was made to embrace a more extended range of facts. Although some portions of the work in the first edition were abridged, yet the additional matter has extended the present volume to more than one hundred pages beyond the size of its original. In endeavouring to establish the first principles of Christian Theism, the Author has availed himself of such scientific discoveries as the nature of the argument required, and the limited size of the work