g* CONCERNING SECT. II> 



*Tis the gay month of all the youthful year, 

 When nature fmiles ferene, and calm the air ; 

 In the tall grafs the foft Favottius plays, 

 And nightingales repeat their tuneful lays ; 

 The flocks too frifking o'er the flowery vale, 

 With eager joy the cheerful feafon hail. 



Rapik. 



In confidering the works of nature, it is hardly 

 poflible but to feel both concern and indignation at 

 the folly of Atheifm, and the abfurdity of the Atomic 

 philofophy. Both have been well expofed by many- 

 writers, and completely fo by Sir Richard Blackmore, 

 in his Poem on the Creation; from which though fome 

 extra6ls have been already made, let the following be 

 added, 



How dark is human feafan found, 



How vain the man with wit and learning crown'd ; 

 How feeble all his ftrengthwhen he efiays 

 ' To trace dark nature, and deteft her ways, 

 Unlefshe calls its author to his aid 

 Who ev'ry fecret fpring of motion laid ; 

 Who over all his wond'rous works prefidee. 

 And to their ufeful ends their caufes guides ? 

 Thefe paths in vain are by inquirers trod, 

 There's no philofophy without a GOD. 

 Th' eternal mind's exigence we fuftain, 

 By proofs fo full, by evidence fo plain, 

 That none of all the fciences have (hewn 

 Such demonstration of the truths they own. 

 Good heaven ! that men who vaunt difcerning fight, 

 And arrogant from wifdom's diftant height, 

 Look down on vulgar mortals who revere 

 A cause supreme, ftiould their proud building I 



rear, 

 Without one prop the pond' rows pile to bear ! J 



Ye friends of Epicurus look around, 



All nature view with marks of prudence crown'd. 



Mind 



