The Existence and Attributes of God by William Symington
the beginning God created the heaven and the earth,' the Targum expresseth, 'In wisdom God created the heaven and the earth.' Both bear a stamp of this perfection on them;' and when the apostle tells the Romans (Rom. i. 20) 'The invisible things of God were clearly understood by the things that are made.' The whole creation is a poem, every species a stanza, and every individual creature a verse in it. The creation presents us with a prospect of the wisdom of God, as a poem doth the reader with the wit and fancy of the composer: 'By wisdom he created the earth' (Prov. iii. 19), 'and stretched out the heavens by discretion' (Jer. x. 12). There is not anything so mean, so small, but glitters with a beam of Divine skill; and the consideration of them would justly make every man subscribe to that of the psalmist, 'O Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all' (Ps. civ. 24).
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