Professor Müller finds the first traces of a Maker or Creator in the Vedic deity Tvashtar, the carpenter—the clever workman, even smith, forging bolts for Indra therein, Rig-Ved. iii. 55. 19. “Tvashtar, the enlivener, endowed with many forms, has nourished the creatures and produced them in many ways; all these worlds are his.” Of another god, latterly called Pragâpati, he quotes Rig-Ved. x. 81. 2, as one who, “creating the earth, disclosed the sky by his power.” Very significantly, however, he reminds us that the same poet loses the idea, and speaks of the secret of creation as undiscoverable.—Müller’s _Natural Religion_, p. 245. Also Introd. to Upanishads, _Sacred Books of the East_, vol. xv. p. xxiv. Footnote 109: Fairbairn, _Religion in History and in the Life of To-day_, pp. 39-51. Footnote 110: It was only by their very highest and greatest souls that the Godhead was conceived in anything of its spiritual glory. To Abraham God was the Creator, distinct from and greater than the earth and heavens which He had made; to Moses He was a righteous Lawgiver, training upon eagle-wings a peculiar people; to David He was a tender and wise Shepherd of a foolish and helpless flock; to Isaiah and the later prophets a Father dealing with rebellious people, whom He pities, knowing whereof they were made. These conceptions, however, cannot be said to have been those of the mass of the people. Footnote 111: Kuenen, _National Religions and Universal Religion_, Hibbert Lectures, 1882, p. 187. Footnote 112: Edersheim, _Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah_, vol. i. p. 275. Footnote 113: Jos. _Contra Ap._ ii. 30. 32; _Antiq._ xviii. 1. 1; _Jewish Wars_, ii. 8. Footnote 114: Uhlhorn, _Conflict of Christianity_, chaps. i. ii.; Jos. _Antiq._ xiii. 9. 1, and 11. 3, and _Contra Ap._ ii. 10. 39; Kuenen, _Religion of Israel_, iii. 273 _seq._; Renan, _Les Apôtres_, pp. 253, 260. Footnote 115: The truth on which the Sabbath is founded is the majestic truth of a completed creation, and one conform to the latest discoveries of science. During the whole course of human observation no new creative effort has been displayed in the production of a new type. The animal and vegetable worlds stand to-day as man first beheld them. The creative spirit has passed into the soul of man, in whose world is the progress which nature has long ceased to manifest, and under whose handling nature itself improves. But God, though resting from His works of creation, is not in Scripture said to be resting from His works of mercy: “My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.” Footnote 116: “The words of Agur the son of Jakeh,” Proverbs xxxi. 1. Footnote 117: Hüber, _Der Pessimismus_, 1876, p. 8; Holdheim, Preface to vol. iii. of _Predigten_, quoted by Cheyne, _Job and Solomon_, pp. 250-253. Footnote 118: Eccles. xii. 12. Footnote 119: