4 NORTHERN MEMOIRS. 



signal marks and shining characters of this stu- 

 pendous creation. 



Theoph. Why so ? 



Am. And why not so ? Does not the lion 

 and the leopard, with the tiger, wolf, panther 

 and vulture, pay their veneration to him ? 

 Does not his very aspect confound the eroca- 

 dile ? And, with one superficial glance of his 

 eye, he mortifies the basilick. Consider the 

 composure of his face and features, together 

 with the delicate frame, and his well composed 

 fabrick of body. Do not these present him a 

 composition of majesty ? Surely it does ; for all 

 the creatures honour and adore him, which de- 

 monstrates him a monarch, and of such a princely 

 soveraignty, that the whole creation pay their 

 services to him. 



Theoph. You wilfully misinterpret me, or 

 prevaricate your own judgment, by taking 

 wrong measures. That dignity and vertue (you 

 sum up) that formerly shin'd as a ray about 

 him, is now become a cloud, a promiscuous 

 cloud to obscure him. 



Am. How can I mistake myself, when, to 

 consider him in a most eminent state, and such 

 a capacity of beauty and excellency, that the 

 maz'd world think him more than a monarch ? 



Theoph. They may think what they will of 



