And _in limine_ I have to remind him that he has really no right first to give, in his own words, his own notion of the history of Creation; and then to insist on making _the Revelation_ of the same transaction ridiculous by giving _it_ also in words of his own, which become in effect a weak parody of the original. What is there in Genesis about "_the air or wind_ fluttering over the waters of the deep?" (p. 219.) Is this meant for the august announcement that "the SPIRIT of GOD moved upon the face of the waters?"--"On the third day, ... we wish to call attention to the fact that trees and plants destined for food are those which are particularly singled out as the earliest productions of the earth." (p. 220.) The reverse is the fact; as a glance at Gen. i. 11. will shew.--"The formation of the stars" on the fourth day, "is mentioned in the most cursory manner." (p. 221.) But _who_ is not aware that "the formation of the stars" is _nowhere mentioned in this chapter at all_? "Light and the measurement of time," (proceeds Mr. Goodwin,) "are represented as existing before the manifestation of the Sun." (p. 219.) Half of this statement is true; the other half is false. The former idea, he adds, is "repugnant to our modern knowledge." (p. 219.) Is then Mr. Goodwin really so weak as to imagine that our Sun is the sole source of Light in Creation? Whence then the light of the so-called fixed Stars? But I shall be told that Mr. Goodwin speaks of _our_ system only, and of our Earth in particular. Then pray, whence that glory[103] which on a certain night on a mountain in Galilee, caused the face of our REDEEMER to shine as the Sun[104] and His raiment to emit a dazzling lustre[105]? "We may boldly affirm," (he says,) "that those for whom [Gen. i. 3-5] was penned could have taken it in no other sense than that light existed before and independently of the sun." (p. 219.) We may indeed. And I as boldly affirm that I take the passage in that sense _myself_: moreover that I hold the statement which Mr. Goodwin treats so scornfully, to be the very truth which, in the deep counsels of GOD, this passage _was designed_ to convey to mankind; even that "the King of Kings, and LORD of Lords, who only hath immortality, _dwelleth in the Light which no man can approach unto[106]_."