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In the second mode, the aspect of a believer considering this world,

one reaches its origin, course, and terminus. For by faith we believe that

the ages are fashioned by the Word of Life [Hebr., 11, 3]; by faith we

believe that the ages of the three laws - that is, the ages of the law of

Nature, of Scripture, and of Grace - succeed each other and occur in most

orderly fashion; by faith we believe that the world will be ended at the

last judgment - taking heed of the power in the first, of the providence in

the second, of the justice of the most high principle in the third.