VI.  Now our very eyes and the Law of Nature teach us that God exists and that He is the Efficient and Maintaining Cause of all things:  our eyes, because they fall on visible objects, and see them in beautiful stability and progress, immovably moving and revolving if I may so say; natural Law, because through these visible things and their order, it reasons back to their Author.  For how could this Universe have come into being or been put together, unless God had called it into existence, and held it together?  For every one who sees a beautifully made lute, and considers the skill with which it has been fitted together and arranged, or who hears its melody, would think of none but the lutemaker, or the luteplayer, and would recur to him in mind, though he might not know him by sight.  And thus to us also is manifested That which made and moves and preserves all created things, even though He be not comprehended by the mind.  And very wanting in sense is he who will not willingly go thus far in following natural proofs; but not even this which we have fancied or formed, or which reason has sketched for us, proves the existence of a God.  But if any one has got even to some extent a comprehension of this, how is God’s Being to be demonstrated?  Who ever reached this extremity of wisdom?  Who was ever deemed worthy of so great a gift?  Who has opened the mouth of his mind and drawn in the Spirit, Ps. cxix. 21. so as by Him that searcheth all things, yea the deep thing of God, 1 Cor. ii. 10. to take in God, and no longer to need progress, since he already possesses the Extreme Object of desire, and That to which all the social life and all the intelligence of the best men press forward?