ajid blood; every particle of -which blood is composed 

 of various other pai tides: when we consider all this, 

 can we help being lost in wonder and astonishment 1 



the depth, of the riches voik of 'the- wisdom aha Knmv^ 

 ledge of God ! How unsearchable are his wurh and his 

 ways of' creation and providence past Jin ding out I . 



Natural- instinct is another thing in animals no less 

 wonderful than their frame ; and is indeed nothing else 

 than the direction of an all-wise and all-powerful mind* 

 What else teaches birds, to build their nests, hard or soft, 

 according to the constitution of their young? What 

 dlse makes them keep so constantly in their nest during; 

 the time of incubation, as if they knew the efficacy of 

 their own warmth, and its aptness for animation 1 

 What else causes the salmon every year to come up a 

 river, perhaps hundreds of miles, to cast its spawn,., and . 

 secure it in banks of sand till the young ones are ex- 

 cluded ? To go no farther, can we behold the spider's 

 net, the siik-vi orm's web, the bees cells, or the ant's 

 granaries, without being forced to acknowledge the in- 

 iinite wisdom which directs their unerring steps, and 

 lias made them fit to be ; an emblem of art, industry, and 

 frugality, to mankind ? . 



If, from the earth, and t lie creatures that live up c 

 it, we cast our eyes upon the water, we soon perceive 

 that had it been more or less rarefied, it had not been 

 so proper for the use of man. And who gave it tha^ 

 just configuration of parts and exact degree of motion, 

 which makes it so fluent,, and yet so strong as to carry 

 and waft a way .the most enormous burdens \ Who has 

 instructed the rivers to rua in so many winding streams 

 through vast tracts of land, in; order to water them the 

 inore plentifully .'? Then to disembogue themselves into 

 the ocean, so making it the corn m on centre of COITH 

 iijerce : and thence to. return, through the earth and air, 

 to their fountain heads, in one perpetual circulation 1 

 i^hed these. rjvers with, ibiiof ail kmd^, whicb 



