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industry, to discover any more than fifty-three species 

 .[of lutterflies !] in n\i> neighbourhood. But I veriiy 

 believe, if God spares my life a few years longer, I 

 shall be able to find several more !" Was it not a 

 pity, but Bis life should have been spared fifty years 

 far so excellent a purpose ? 



To those, who lean on this extreme, I would re_ 

 commend a few more reflections, extracted from the 

 same masterly writer. 



1. My learning of natural causes and effects, and 

 of arts and sciences, I have not esteemed to be the 

 chief, or the best furniture of my mind ; but have 

 accounted them dross in comparison of the know- 

 ledge of Thee, and thy Christ, and him crucified. 

 In acquiring them I have always taken care, 1 . That 

 I might not too prodigally bestow my time upon 

 them to the prejudice of that time and pains which 

 were most profitably bestowed, on the acquiring of 

 more excellent knowledge, and the greater concern- 

 ments of my everlasting happiness. ^ 



2. I carried along with me, in all my studies of 

 this kind, the great design of improving thefti, and 

 the knowledge acquired by them, to the honour of 

 Ihy name and the greater discovery of thy wisdom* 

 power, and truth ; and so translated my secular 

 learning into an improvement of Divine knowledge 

 and had I not ever preserved thait design in my ac~ 



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