The Preface.

...scarcely to be found outside of us. Truly, if we find such skillful design original: "artifice" throughout all of nature (and so it is) that every creature, every part of a creature, and even a part of those parts serves several different purposes, then I see no reason why we should deny the Book of God this same mark of the highest wisdom.

On the contrary, I see every reason why we ought to conclude that the most complete accounts original: "complements" of all things—which our physical senses and human reason were unable to grasp, yet which we were required to know—are found within that most holy Book. For did God not bring humanity into the "School of the World" to contemplate His manifold wisdom? Did He not command us to behold beta original Greek: β; likely marking a second point or a specific reference His invisible qualities through the things that are seen? (Romans 1:20). Surely this must be acknowledged as the purpose original: "end" for both the creation of the world and the placement of humanity within it. Now, it is clear throughout all of nature that, for whatever purpose God has ordained anything...