248 LETTER IX. 



22. Upon the whole, maturely confidered, I 

 admit that the prefent ftate in general, of moft 

 vifible things, may be difcovered by a due and 

 candid furvey of them : But alas ! to determine 

 the means, how they arrived at this flate, is in 

 moft cafes too difficult a tafk for human Un- 

 derftanding to go thorough with. For my own 

 part, I never look attentively upon this beautiful 

 Frame of Heaven and Earth, without putting 

 up a devout Ejaculation or Hymn, in honour to 

 their glorious Author and Mover, God, Omni.- 

 potent and Gracious, remembring Milton^ Book 5, 

 line SS7' 



' '■ — — Up he rodcy 



Followed with acclamation and the found 

 Sy?nphonioi(s^ of ten thoufand Harps that twid 

 Angelic Harmonies : T'he Earthy the Air 

 Refotmded^ (thou rememberdf for thou heardjl) 

 T'he Heave?is and all the Conflellatiom rung^ 

 Tfoe Planets in their flation Ufl'ning flood ^ 

 While the bright pomp afc ended jubilant, 

 Open^ ye everlajiing Gates ^ they fung^ 

 Open^ ye Heavens^ your everlajiing Doors ^ let 171 

 T'he great C?^eator from his Work return d 

 Magnificent^ his Six Days Work^ a World, 



And indeed, I may well thus remember him: 

 For (with the learned and ingenious Dr. Brown^ 

 m his Religio Medici^ page 34.) *' I hold, there 



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