e(c)Meanwhile let us not be ashamed to take pious delight in the works of God open and manifest in this most beautiful theater.27 cFor, as I have elsewhere said,28 although it is not the chief evidence for faith, yet it is the first evidence in the order of nature, to be mindful that wherever we cast our eyes, all things they meet are works of God, and at the same time to ponder with pious meditation to what end God created them. Therefore, that we may apprehend