(_c_) In Providence—that is, in his ordering the work of the world. He not only “produced a supernatural history extending through centuries, ... and working out results which human wisdom could never have conceived, nor human power executed,”[J] but also he has directed all the workings of all history in accordance with the central purpose of his revelation. (_d_) In grace, by his spirit revealing what the human mind could never have discovered for itself, redemption and atonement through forgiveness of sin. IV. This divine revelation so wrought by God _has been, and is being reported_ that all the world may know and confess that “the Lord, he is the God.” Reported: 1. _Through Tradition._—There was an unwritten Bible before the written word, handed down from patriarchs to scribes; and even in lands destitute of the Scriptures, we trace the dim outlines of truth transmitted from ancient authority. 2. _Through Philosophy._—Wise men and thinkers have read the revelation in nature and gathered it up from human thought, and the highest philosophy, as that of a Socrates and a Plato, finds God. 3. _Through Prophecy._—In the earlier ages, and perhaps through all the ages, God has communed with chosen men who have lived in fellowship with himself; and has made them the mouthpiece uttering his will to the world. 4. _Through Preaching._—The pulpit, when it is true to its mission, voices the message of God to man. V. _We find also that this divine revelation has been written out, under a divine direction_: 1. _In Various Books._—The Bible is not one book, but sixty-six books, a whole library, presenting the divine revelation under varied aspects, but all under one divine origin and supervision. 2. _By Various Writers._—Not less than thirty authors, and probably many more, shared in the composition of the Scriptures, but all wrote under a divine control, and expressed, each in his own style, the mind of the Spirit. 3. _Through Various Ages._—Moses may have begun the writing, doubtless from earlier documents. Samuel, David, Solomon, Isaiah, Ezra, Matthew, Paul, John, each in turn carried on the work through a period of sixteen hundred years. The book grew like a cathedral, rising through the centuries, under many successive master-builders, yet according to one plan of one divine Architect. 4. _In Various Languages._—Two great tongues, one Semitic, the other Aryan, were employed, the Hebrew in the Old Testament, the Greek in the new; but the Hebrew of Moses is not that of Daniel a thousand years later. VI. _We find this divine revelation preserved_: