1^1 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



the thunder; nor of the privilege which they haVe^ 

 in this venal age, of prefiding, in all States, over 

 the happinefs of men, when they believe they 

 have nothing more to fear from the powers of 

 Earth and Heaven. 



But the whole world is engaged only in the pur- 

 fuit of pleafure. England, Spain, Italy, the Ar- 

 chipelago, Hungary, all Southern Europe, is add- 

 ing, every year, wools to their wools, wines to their 

 wines, filks to their filks. Afia fends them dia- 

 monds, fpices, muflins, chintzes, and porcelain -, 

 America, the gold and filver of her mountains, 

 the emeralds of her rivers, the die-ftuffs of her 

 forefts, the cochineal, the fugar-cane, and the 

 cocoa-nut of her fervid plains, which their hands 

 did not cultivate; Africa, her ivory, her gold, her 



and confumed ihem that ivere in the uttenmjl parts of the camp^ 

 Numb. xi. I. In the threatenings denounced againft the people 

 in Leviticus, no mention is made of thunder. On the contrary, 

 it was amidfl the noife of thunder that GOD promulgated his law 

 to his chofen people, from Mount Sinai. Finally, in that fu- 

 blime piece of poetry, wherein David fummons all the works of 

 JEHOVAH, to praife him, he calls, among the reft, upon the 

 thunder ; and it is not foreign to our purpofe to remark, that 

 he includes, in his fummons, all the meteors which enter into 

 the neceflary harmony of the Univerfe. He qualifies them with 

 the majeftic title of the Angels^ and Hojîs of the Most High, 

 See PJahn cxiviii. 



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