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mind, let us suppose the figure above mentioned rises by 

 degrees, and is finished part by part in some succession 

 of lime. When the whole is completed, the veins and 

 arter.es bored, the sinews and tendons laid, the joints 

 fitted, the blood and juices lodged in the vessels pre- 

 pared for them, God infuses into it a vital principle. 

 The image moves, it walks, it speaks. Were we to see 

 all tin's transacted before our eyes, we could not but be 

 astonished; A consideration of this made David break 

 out into that rapturous acknowledgment. I -will give thee 

 thanks, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made! 

 Marvellous are thy works, and that my soul kuoweth 

 right well. Thine eyes did see my substance yet 

 being imperfect, and in tJiy book were all my members 

 written. 



Thus, which way soever we turn our eyes, whether we 

 look upward or downward, without us or within us, 

 upon the animate or inanimate parts of the creation, we 

 find abundant reason to say, Lord, how manifold are 

 thy works / In wisdom hast thou made them all. 



Let us observe a little farther the terraqueous globe : 

 how admirably are all things thereon chained together, 

 that they may all aim at the ultimate end \\ hich God 

 proposed in all his works ! And how vast a number of 

 intermediate ends are subservient to this ! To perpe- 

 tuate the established course of nature in a continued 

 series, the Divine Wisdom has thought fit that all living 

 creatures should constantly be employed in producing 

 individuals, that all natural things should lend a helping 

 baud toward preserving every species, and lastly, that 

 the destruction of one tiling should always conduce to 

 the production of another. 



This globe contains what are called the three king- 

 doms of nature, the Jossile, vegetable, and animal. 

 The fossile constitutes the crust of the earth, lyinj/ be- 

 neath the visible surface ; the vegetable adorns the face 



