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REALITIES:

OR,

THE MANIFESTATIONS OF GOD

In Past Ages

CONSIDERED AS EARNESTS OF THE FUTURE.

BY

E. R.

"The LORD is known by the judgment which He executeth."

"Declare His glory among the heathen, His wonders

PSALM 9. 16.

among all people."
PSALM 96. 3.

"I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto THEE, O LORD, will I sing."

PSALM 101. I.

LONDON:

WILLIAM YAPP, 70, WELBECK STREET. W.

HAMILTON, ADAMS & CO., PATERNOSTER ROW.

1862.

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"It is by placing the character of God and the character of man, as it were in juxta-position, the one over against the other, that we can best understand both. This relation of God and man, the one towards the other, is the department of divine and human knowledge in which, in our humble opinion, this generation has most need to be instructed."-M'Cosн: The Method of the Divine

Government.

"If man be a reality, no empty wasion in the dreaming soul of nature, but, as who shall doubt he is, inwardly substantial and personal, that which he most earnestly desires, which best satisfies his whole being, must be real too."-Blackwood's Magazine.

INTRODUCTION.

IN this free and happy country, notes and commentaries, illustrations and expositions,-all professing to elucidate the Book of God,-spring up like true plants of a Bible land. Where books on the Bible so abound, some reason for adding to their number may, possibly, be demanded by the reader. The adequacy of the reason can alone be proved by the contents; while the reason itself arose out of some of those casual circumstances which might occur to any person who feels an interest in the truth of God.

A request was presented to the writer to undertake the instruction of others in a Bible class. From inexperience in that mode of tuition, the proposal would have been declined; but long association with the Sunday-school, from whose ranks of past and present scholars the class was about to be formed, and other favouring circumstances, induced the conviction that the Lord was thus appointing new service for himself, and the request was complied with.

Trusting in the Lord, and endeavouring to make His Word the teacher of the class, the Bible was opened at the Book of Genesis. The first few chapters brought the co-relations of sin, judgment, and mercy, under

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