There is a creating power needful to be exerted for the preservation of Zion's remnant. Their preservation must be of God's creation. It is not only, not to be educed out of any other principle, or to be wrought by any other means- but it must, as it were, by the almighty power of God, be brought out of nothing- -- God must create it. At least, as there were two sorts of God's creatures at the beginning, -- that dark body of matter, whose rise was merely from nothing- and those things which from that dark, confused heap, he made to be other things than what they were therein,