Ꮐ Ꭱ Ꭺ Ꮋ ᎪᎷ LECTURES. Human ITS PROVIDENTIAL STRUCTURE, RELATIONS, AND OFFICES. EIGHT LECTURES DELIVERED AT THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE, BY F. D. HUNTINGTON, D.D. NEW YORK: ROBERT CARTER & BROTHERS, 530 BROADWAY. 1860. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by PETER G. TAYLOR, President of the Brooklyn Institute, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York. STEREOTYPED BY THOMAS B. SMITH & SON, 82 & 84 Beekman-street, N. Y. PRINTED BY E. O. JENKINS, 28 Frankfort-street, N. Y, INTRODUCTORY NOTE. For the sake of convenience and clearness in the arrangement, what was prepared and delivered as six Lectures, is here, with a few additions, distributed into eight. CAMBRIDGE, May 1, 1859. F. D. H. PREFACE. THE Directors of the Brooklyn Institute have much pleasure in presenting to the Public, the Graham Lectures, thus far published, on the POWER, WISDOM, AND GOODNESS OF GOD, AS MANIFESTED IN HIS WORKS. This course, by Professor Huntington, was very fully attended; so much so, as to make it very desirable that we should have a larger room than the present one for the future lectures of the Institute. These Lectures were intended by Mr. Graham to treat of the works of God, separate and apart from polemic theology, or the peculiar doctrines of the sects into which the religious world is divided. The whole of God's works may furnish the subjects of these discourses, whether in their greatest or most minute forms; their simple or their complex organizations; their adaptations, their laws, their skill, their wisdom, their harmonies, their divine character. The lecturer, therefore, stands, as it were, in |