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Upon all these considerations I concluded, that 

 my intellectual power, and the exercise of it in this 

 life, was given for a certain, useful, and becoming 

 object, even to know tkee, the only true GOD, and 

 JESUS CHRIST whom thou hast sent. 



In many parts of the preceding tract, I have oc- 

 casionally touched on the littleness of human know- 

 ledge. Perhaps a few more observations on this 

 important head, may not be unacceptable fro the 

 serious reader. I propose them barely as hints, 

 which may be pursued at large, by men of reflection 

 and leisure. 



To begin (where we ended before) with the things 

 which are at the greatest distance from us. How 

 far does the universe extend, and where are the 

 limits of it ? Where did the Creator " stay his rapid 

 wheels?" Where " fix the golden compasses?' 

 Certainly himself alone is without bounds, but all his 

 works are finite. Therefore he must have said at 

 some point of space, 



" Be these thy bounds 

 This be thy just circumference, O world !"" 



But where, who can tell ? Only the morning-stars? 

 who then sang together ; the sons o/Gov, who then 

 shouted for joy. All beyond the region of the fixed 

 stars, is utterly hid from the children of men. 



