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Even the actions of animals arc an eloquent and a 

 pathetic language. Those that want the help of man 

 hare a thousand engaging ways, which, like the voice 

 of God speaking to his heart command him to preserve 

 and cherish them. In the mean time the motions or 

 looks of those which might do him harm,, strike him 

 with terror, and warn him, either to fly from or arm 

 himself against them. Thus it is, that every part of 

 nature directs us to nature's God. 



10. The reader will easily excuse my concluding 

 this chapter also, with an extract from Mr. Hervey. 



In all the animal world, we find no tribe, no indu 

 vidual neglected by its Creator. Even the ignoble 

 creatures arc most wisely ciicumstanced and most li- 

 berally accommodated. 



They all generate in that particular season, which 

 supplies them with a stock of provisions, sufficient not 

 only for themselves, but for their increasing families. 

 The sheep yean, when there is herbage to fill their 

 udders, and create milk for their lambs. The birds 

 hatch their young, when newborn insects swarm on 

 every side. So that the caterer, whether it be male 

 or female parent, needs only to alight on the ground, 

 or make a little excursion into the air, and find a feast 

 ready dressed for the mouths at home. 



Their love to their offspring, while they are help. 

 less, is invincibly strong : whereas the moment they 

 are able to shift for themselves, it vanishes as though 

 it had never been. The hen lhat marches at the head 

 of her little brood, would fly at a mastiff in their de- 

 fence. Yet within a few weeks, she leaves them to 

 the wide world, and does not even know them any 

 more. 



If the God of Israel inspired B^zaleel and Aholiah 

 with wisdom and knowledge in all manner of work* 

 manbhip, the God of nature has not been wanting, in 

 his instructions to the fowls of the air. The skill with 

 which they erect their houses, and adjust their apart, 

 ments is inimitable. The caution with which they 



