posteriori_ inductions of science equally attest _that God is one_.

[Footnote 371: We refer with pleasure to the articles of Dr. Winchell,
in the North-western Christian Advocate, in which the _a posteriori_
proof of "the Unity of God" is forcibly exhibited, and take occasion to
express the hope they will soon be presented to the public in a more
permanent form.]

4th. By denying that man has any intuitive cognitions of right and
wrong, or any native and original feeling of obligation, Mr. Watson
invalidates "the moral argument" for the existence of a Righteous God.

"As far as man's reason has applied itself to the discovery of truth or
_duty_ it has generally gone astray."[372] "Questions of morals do not,
for the most part, lie level to the minds of the populace."[373] "Their
conclusions have no _authority_, and place them under no
_obligation_."[374] And, indeed, man without a revelation "is without
_moral control_, without _principles of justice_, except such as may be
slowly elaborated from those relations which concern the grosser
interests of life, without _conscience_, without hope or fear in another
life."[375]

[Footnote 372: "Institutes of Theology," vol. ii. p. 470.]

[Footnote 373: Ibid., vol. i. p. 15.]

[Footnote 374: Ibid., vol. i. p. 228.]

[Footnote 375: Ibid., vol. ii. p. 271.]

Now we shall not occupy our space in the elaboration of the proposition
that the universal consciousness of our race, as revealed in human
history, languages, legislations, and sentiments, bears testimony to the
fact that the ideas of right, duty, and responsibility are native to the
human mind; we shall simply make our appeal to those Sacred Writings
whose verdict must be final with all theologians. That the fundamental
principles of the moral law do exist, subjectively, in all human minds
is distinctly affirmed by Paul, in a passage which deserves to be
regarded as the chief corner-stone of moral science. "The Gentiles
(ephne, heathen), which have not the written law, do by the guidance of
nature (reason or conscience) the works enjoined by the revealed law;
these, having no written law, are a law unto themselves; who show
plainly the works of the law written on their hearts, their conscience
bearing witness, and also their reasonings one with another, when they
accuse, or else excuse, each other."[376] To deny this is to relegate
the heathen from all responsibility. For Mr. Watson admits "that the
will of a supe