Quite manifest it is that, alike in nature and revelation, God neither thinks nor acts according to man's standard of wisdom. God did not make the world as a wise man would have made it; God does not govern the world as a wise man would govern it; God has not written the Bible as a wise man would have written it. To this truth we must all come at last; and the sooner the better, for our profit and consolation—for we shall increase in the true knowledge of God only when, and precisely as, our finite and imperfect reason sinks from its false place of criticism of God's doings, into its true place of scholarship at God's feet.

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