"In his earliest days the psalmist [David], while keeping his father's
flock, had devoted himself to the study of God's two great
books—nature and Scripture; and he had so thoroughly entered into the
spirit of these two only volumes in his library that he was able with
a devout criticism to compare and contrast them, magnifying the
excellency of the Author as seen in both. How foolish and wicked are
those who instead of accepting the two sacred tomes, and delighting to
behold the same divine hand in each, spend all their wits in
endeavouring to find discrepancies and contradictions. We may rest
assured that the true 'Vestiges of Creation' will never contradict
Genesis, nor will a correct 'Cosmos' be found at variance with the
narrative of Moses. He is wisest who reads both the world-book and the
Word-book as two volumes of the same work, and feels concerning them,
'My Father wrote them both.'"
1. "'The heavens declare the glory of God.' The book of nature has
three leaves, heaven, earth, and sea, of which heaven is the first and
most glorious, and by its aid we are able to see the beauties of the
other two. Any book without its first page would be sadly imperfect,
and especially the great Natural Bible, since its first pages, the
sun, moon, and stars, supply light which follows would be dark and
undiscerned. Man walking erect was evidently made to scan the skies,
and he who begins to read creation by studying the stars begins the
book at the right place."
Introduction to Psalm XlX, The Treasury of David by C.H. Spurgeon