A treatise on the records of the Creation, and on the moral attributes of the Creator

TREATISE,

&c.

VOL. II.

ON THE WISDOM AND GOODNESS OF THE CREATOR.

Permittes ipsis expendere Numinibus, quid
Conveniat nobis, rebusque sit utile nostris ;
Carior est illis homo, quàm sibi.

Juv.

LONDON:

IBOTSON AND PALMER, PRINTERS, SAVOY STREET, STRAND.

TREATISE

ON THE

RECORDS OF THE CREATION,

AND ON THE

MORAL ATTRIBUTES

OF THE

CREATOR;

WITH

PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE JEWISH HISTORY,

AND TO THE CONSISTENCY OF THE PRINCIPLE OF POPULATION
WITH THE WISDOM AND GOODNESS OF THE DEITY.

BY JOHN BIRD SUMNER, M.A.
Prebendary of Durham, &c. and late Fellow of Eton College.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

FOURTH EDITION, CORRECTED.

LONDON:

J. HATCHARD AND SON, 187, PICCADILLY.

MDCCCXXV.

21 9 1915

LIBRARY

CONTENTS

-OF THE

SECOND VOLUME.

PART II.

ON THE WISDOM OF THE CREATOR.

Introduction. Statement of the Attributes. Modes of
proving them à priori, and from the Works of the

Books