to imagine that human craft can contravene omniscience, or human power overcome omnipotence. It is the potsherd striving with his Maker. If God’s expostulation be disregarded, then He speaketh in judgment. While adverse nations perish, the kingdom of Christ shall continue and become universal. When the Son says, “I will declare the decree,” He has respect to future revelations as well as to the one then announced. He intimates that henceforth there shall be brighter and more ample discoveries of