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Ms continual care of his creatures, that though every 

 thing be composed of simple elements, all -placed with- 

 in our reach, yet no power is able to destroy the least 

 particle of them. Nothing but the same cause which 

 was able to give them birth, can annihilate them or 

 change their nature. In truth, the design and will 

 of the Creator, is the only physical cause of the gene- 

 ral ceconomy of the world : the only physical cause 

 of every organized body, every germen that flourishes 

 in it ; the only physical cause of every minute, ele- 

 mentary particle, which enters into the composition 

 of all. 



We must not then expect ever to have a clear and 

 full conception of effects, natures, and causes. For 

 >vhere is the thing which we can fully conceive ? We 

 can no more comprehend either what body in general 

 is, or any particular body, suppose a mass of clay, 

 or a ball of lead, than what a spirit, or what God is. 



If we turn our eyes to the minutest parts of animal 

 life, we shall be lost in astonishment! And though 

 every thing is alike easy to the Almighty, yet to us 

 it is matter of the highest wonder, that in those specks 

 of life,we find a greater number of members to be put 

 in motion, more wheels and pullies to be kept going, 

 and a greater variety of machinery, more elegance 

 and workmanship (so to speak) in the composition, 

 more beauty and ornament in the finishing, than are 

 seen in the enormous bulk of the crocodile, the ele- 

 phant, or the whale. Yea, they seem to be the effects 

 of an art,asmuch more exquisite as the movements of a 

 watch are, than those of a coach or waggon. 



Hence we learn, than an atom, to God, is as a 

 world ; and a world but as an atom : just as to- him, 

 one day is as a thousand years ; and a thousand years 

 but as one day. Every speck's likewise of these ani- 

 malcula may serve to correct our pride, and shew how 

 inadequate our notions are,to the real nature of things. 

 How extremely httle can >ve possibly know, either of 

 the largest or smallest part of the creation ? We are 

 lurnished with organs capable of discerning, to a cer- 



