follows that the properties and exertions of matter are derived from an extrinsic cause, and that that cause is possessed of intelligence and power to which no bounds can be assigned. The same argument may be stated in a more general and popular manner. The agency of God is clearly and certainly seen in the preservation and government of all things. The existence of all the forms and states of being which we behold in the universe is plainly derived, because it is a change in the former state of things, communicating, continuing, and terminating, and, as it is impossible that any thing should commence its own existence, derived certainly from an extrinsic and adequate cause. This cause can be none other than God. CHAPTER I. 1. EXISTENCE. Every Scripture that speaks of God implies his existence. The common interpretation makes "Lord"--Heb., Yehovah--mean the Existing One; as, EXODUS III, 14. And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. 2. GOD SELF-EXISTENT. JOHN V, 26. For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself. JOHN VI, 57. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father; so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. JER. X, 10. But the Lord is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king; at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation. ACTS XVII, 24. God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; 25. Neither is worshiped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things. 1 TIM. VI, 15. Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; 16. Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see; to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen. CHAPTER II. ATTRIBUTES. 1. UNITY. DEUT. VI, 4. Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord. DEUT. XXXII, 39. See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. DEUT. IV, 35. Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the Lord he is God; there is none else beside him. MARK XII, 32. And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God: and there is none other but he. EPH. IV, 5. One Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6. One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. 1 COR. VIII, 4. As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.