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still bear no proportion to him that is infinite : no more 

 than this ball oi ; earth docs. How large soever it be, 

 still compared to him it is as nothing: as the small dust 

 of the balance. Do you ask then what is this spot to 

 the great. God ? Why, as much as millions of systems. 

 Great and little have place, with regard to us: but be- 

 fore him they vanish away. Inlarge the bounds of cre- 

 ation as much as you please, still it is but a drop to the 

 Creator. 



And still the power of his Almighty hand, 

 Can form another world from every sand ! 



Yet were this done, there would be no more propor- 

 tion between the world and its Crealor, than there is now ! 



It will easily be observed that 1 do not; deny, but only 

 doubt of the present s\stem of astronomy. But the in- 

 genious Mr. Kennedy goes much farther in his astrono- 

 mical chronology. I beg leave to present the im- 

 partial searchers after truth, with a short extract from it/ 



<s Although many persons of great abilities have 

 thought sacred chronology worthy their most diligent 

 researches, yet they have all failed in the main point. 

 They have taken it for granted, that the scriptural com- 

 putations are quite umibtronomical. The title of The 

 World's Chronology, has been fixed to very different col- 

 lections of years, without looking for any astronomical 

 era, to support the title. This is the iiist attempt of 

 that kind which has been made. 



" I have lately proved the fundamental proposition of 

 the following scheme, namely, that Moses fixes the posi- 

 tion of the sun and moon with regard to each other at 

 the creation. And this revealed position of the sun 

 and moon, with respect to each other at the creation, I 

 call the scriptural, astronomical era. 



" By means of this era we may keep even pace with 

 the two great luminaries, from the first year of the world 

 till now. And till now my conclusions are confirmed, 



