sufficient to teach us, then, the divine existence. Accordingly we find that God never sent a messenger to declare or reveal this to us; or would have a miracle wrought to establish it.--_And there is none but the fool in his heart can say there is no God._ If any men claiming to be philosophers have been found to be speculative atheists, it is owing to their having perverted reason, by their sophistical arguments, and metaphysical reveries. If barbarous nations and tribes of men have been discovered, in remote parts of the world, where it appeared that they had no idea, at all, of a supreme being, it is to be ascribed not to the insufficiency of nature's light, but to their stupid inattention to that light. 2. The light of reason is sufficient to give all mankind some knowledge of _some_ of the attributes of the divine nature. The heathen world may know from the things that are, the wisdom, power, and goodness of the Deity. If natural reason can discover the being of God, by its own researches, it can also, discover some of the attributes of his being; such as his Almighty power, infinite wisdom and boundless goodness. The very idea of a divine existence implies, a glorious existence--a necessary and eternal existence. It seems to be a clear dictate of reason that if he exist at all, he must exist, in such a manner, as no other being doth or can, by an absolute necessity of nature: that he must be omnipresent--or every where, at one and the same time: be excluded from, and confined to no space. Reason teaches that he inhabits the infinitude of space.--If he be the first cause and Maker of all things, HE must be independent, alsufficient and uncontroulable; he must be infinitely the greatest of all beings. Plato, a heathen philosopher who uttered more wise and just sayings about the nature of the Supreme Being than any one of the antient sages, speaking of the divine omnipresence, or ubiquity of the Godhead, says, he is, "a Circle whose centre is every where, and whose circumference is no where." That he must be omniscient, or possessed of infinite knowledge, is a necessary consequence of his omnipresence.--And reason is likewise able to prove his Eternity. For if he made all things, he must be before all, and above all,--that is, he must be eternal. Hence we find the greatest Lights in the pagan world, when they are speaking of their celestial Divinities, use the epithets _eternal--immortal--omnipotent._ This is a full proof that reason teaches man, if duly improved, that eternity, almighty power, and wisdom were some of the perfections of God. And the incomprehensibility of these attributes is no evidence that reason does not discover them to be perfections of the divine existence. Far exalted, indeed, above all finite comprehension is the self-existent--necessarily existent--independent--all-sufficient--omnipresent God. All nature is but a temple made by him, and filled with his presence. Heaven is his throne, and the earth his footstool.