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creational work ; there you may see the ope- 

 ration of elements and stellate influences ; 

 there also you may see the curious and va- 

 rious amalgamations of earth into crista- 

 line forms and opacous bodies ; and there 

 you may see how the luminaries are adapt- 

 ed parents of polite stones, metals and mi- 

 nerals : How vegetables also protrude and 

 bud up, because impregnated with prolifick 

 vegetation ; and how the principles naturally 

 operate in animals, inspired and animated 

 by the soul of the world. 



We have also considered some moral du- 

 ties, in reference to men of sober conversa- 

 tion : nor are we altogether barren of soli- 

 tudes, and divine contemplation. The stars 

 we consider as fiery objects, and he that 

 made them thus gloriously to shine, made 

 them also to influence and impregnate the 

 universe : for God through wisdom hung 

 up aloft these bright, shining, and globical 

 bodies, whereby to illuminate this stupen- 

 dous creation ; and that by reason of their 

 rapidity and circular rotation, they impreg- 

 nate the earth with prolifick virtue : and as 



