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their leading characters. He that " made a weight 

 for the winds, and weigheth the waters by meafure j" 

 how excellenrly has he ordered all things for the be- 

 nefit of h;s creatures ! |{ The undevout aftronomer 

 is mad," is the ftrong exprefTion of a fublime writer; 

 yet* if the wifdom and providence of God is evi- 

 dent in thofe immenfe bodies, of the ftructure of 

 which we are in a great meafure ignorant, finely it 

 is much more fo in thefe minute operations, which 

 are the immediate objects of our fenfes, where every 

 thing is plainly the effect of intelligence anddefign; 

 and, however ignorant and fuperficial obfervers may 

 wander from the path of truth; the naturalifl at lea# 

 can never be an atieift. 



