Departure Or Selections From Jottings of Twenty Years
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VAN'S NATURE AND AGENCY. 21 and to do by any other divine spirit than the one which legitimately resides within that same complex organic na- ture ? In short, how came man to be invested with power so great and strong that he is able to set the laws of his omnipotent Maker -^t defiance, and strike out a course of action for himself? Man, a battle-ground between the two contending parties, God and the Devil, and the Devil generally win the field ? Why, if God really is an infinitely great, wise,... omnipresent, and omnipotent Being, consequently not only all his created works do^h fill, but all the vast immensity of space as well ; who, then, can be this more than omnipotent Devil which not anywhere a dwelling place can have, since every spot and place and thing, not with his Satanic Majesty, but w4th the presence of the everlasting (yod, is filled ? If it be admitted that God, the great first cause, and Author of all other causes that are, of his own spontaneous accord, created the secondary cause, man, and enstamped upon him such an organic structure, and hence such a nature, as he saw fit, then it cannot be supposed that the course pursued by his said secondary cause, man, v/as unex- pected, and hence dissonant from his desires, without im- puting unto him short-sightedness in planning his creation, else carelessness in executing it, or both.
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