ALTHOUGH the Lord our God "is the rock and his work is perfect-all his ways are judgment; a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is He," yet, not only such as are versed in theology, but thinking Christians in general,—such at least as, jealous of God's glory, wish to "ascribe righteousness to their Maker," will admit that there are difficulties, enfeebled and darkened as our understanding is by sin, in the sacred science, which are not easy to surmount, and apparent disagreements which it appears hard to reconcile. Hence it is, that we are often obliged to seek relief, not only in some of its first principles, -such as, that "the Judge of all the earth will do right," that "God is love," that he is "the only wise God," but in the assurance of the wise Solomon, that "it is the glory of God to conceal a thing," as well as in the consoling anticipation of Paul, that though we now "see through a glass darkly, hereafter we shall see face to face." As to the difficulties, -do not such questions as these sometimes occur to