ii, p.
8); also in the Institutes, Allen's translation, London, 1838, vol.
i, chap.

xv, pp.

126,127; for the Peter Martyr, see his Commentary on Genesis, cited by Zockler, vol.i, p.

690; for articles in the Westminster Confession of Faith, see chap.

iv; for Buffon's recantation, see Lyell, Principles of Geology, chap iii, p.57.For Lightfoot's declaration, see his works, edited by Pitman, London, 1822.
But, strange as it may seem, even after theologians had thus settled the manner of creation, the matter employed in it, the time required for it, and the exact date of it, there remained virtually unsettled the first and greatest question of all; and this was nothing less than the question, WHO actually created the universe?
Various theories more or less nebulous, but all centred in texts of Scripture, had swept through the mind of the Church.