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invention, (particularly language, which, I think, I have fliown* 

 could not have been invented without fupernatural affiftance), yet, as 

 they are learned by all of us when we are very young, and as we are 

 in the conftani ufe of them, the vulgar think that there is no art at 

 all in them, but mere pradice and habit ; wherea^ the philolbpher 

 admires them, and knows them to be not only moft ufeful but mod; 

 wonderful arts: For by one of thi^m our ideas are made audible; and 

 by the other they arc made vifibK , ♦^ogether with the founds of the 

 language w!ncli exprefs then. Bui i.h fe works ot God, which I 

 have mentioueu, being the works of Supreme Intelligence, we ought 

 to admire "nfinirely more than any thing produced by the imperte<St 

 intelligence ot man. 



And not only are the heavens the moft magnificent fpedacle, and 

 moft uleful to our earth and its inhabitutus, but the motions of ihe 

 bodies in it are fo regular, and fo concordant with one another, as 

 to make a wonderful lyftem : For all th( '-^lanetsr, to the number of 

 feven, including our earth, are moved round the iun, their common 

 centre, and with him conftitute what we call our folar lyftem; and 

 as taey are all parts of the fame fyftera, their leveral motions are all 

 governed by the fame Inwsf. And Sir Ifaac Newton has difcover- 

 ed ro us, that not only the planets have this agreement of their mo- 

 tions among themfelves, but that a moft wonderful analogy exifts. 

 betwixt the motions of them ail and of projediles on earth, by whiclv 

 he has been able to give us vhc compleareit fyftem of aftronomy that 

 ever was j and, at the fame time has difcovered a connexion be- 

 twixt heaven and earth, and beiwixt the motions of the fmalleft and 

 greateft bodies, and the moft remote from or.e another, which no 

 philofopher before dm evtr dreamed of; and v/hich very much en- 

 forces my arguments tending to {l\ow the univerfe to be a fyftem. 



And 



* Sec Book n. Cha;., i. of Vol. [V. of this work. 

 ■\ Sec p. 38. ot this vol. 



