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abodes of life : when I remember there are orbs vastly 

 more remote, than those which appear to our unaided 

 sight : when I stretch my thoughts to the innumerable 

 orders of beings, which inhabit all those spacious sys- 

 tems, from the highest seraph, to the puny nations that 

 tinge the plumb with blue, r mantle the standing pool 

 with green. How various are the links in this immense 

 chain, the gradations in this universal scale of existence ! 

 Yet ail these are the work of God's hand, and are full 

 of his presence I 



" He rounded in his palm those dreadfully large 

 globes, which are pendulous in the vault of heaven. He 

 kindled those astonishingly bright fires, which fill the 

 firmament with a flood of glory. By him they are sus- 

 pended in fluid* ether, and never can be shaken : by him 

 they dispense a perpetual tide of beams, and never are 

 exhausted. He formed that exquisitely fine collection of 

 tubes, that unknown multiplicity of subtle springs, which 

 organize and actuate the frame of the minutest insect. 

 He bids the crimson current roll, the vital movements 

 play, and joins together a world of wonders, even in an 

 animated point. For there are living creatures abun- 

 dantly smaller than a mite. Mr. Bratily mentions some, 

 which by computation he found to be a thousand times 

 -less than the least visible grain of sand : at the same 

 time he declares, that this was a bulk}- being, compare^ 

 to others discovered by Mr. Lewenhoek. If then we 

 consider the several limls, which composed sueh an or- 

 ganized particle ; the different springs which actuate 

 those limbs; the flow of spirits which put those springs 

 in motion ; the various fluids which circulate ; the differ- 

 ent secretions which must necessarily be performed ; to- 

 gether with the proportionable niiiruteness of the solids, 

 before they arrive at their full growth : we shall see the. 

 utmost reason to own, that, the Creator is greatly glori- 

 ous even in his smallest works. 



*' To conclude this head. If the stars are magazines 

 of fire, and unmetae reservoirs of light, undoubtedly 



