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can finde art the worh^ that Cod ma\eth from the begin- 

 ning to the end. 



1 ili ill not Apologize for tranflating C37^M tne age 

 or V^12 in the middle of them, becaufe 1 know the 

 words, and methinks the fenfe and context bear it 

 bert, but (hall beg leave by a parallelifm to apply it to 

 the prefent matter ; the placing, not the timing of 

 things, and to exprefs my thoughts thus : That God 

 has made every thing beautiful in its place, order and 

 fcituation, and particularly every part of every Vege- 

 table, and has alio fet the world fo curioufly wrought 

 andmodeU'd, in the middle of us, yet fo, that by 

 reiion of our various affairs and hufinefles, and other 

 fancies , no man can finde out the work that God 

 hath made from the beginning to the end. 



Laftly, I muft beg leave to make the fame conclu- 

 fion and App endix to the Obfervation, that the King 

 has there appof'd to his, (vU.) That the true and 

 onely ufe that can be made of thofe elegancies and 

 beauties which in every afpect fuggeft themfeives un- 

 to us, is no other, but that we Re Joyce In them and in 

 their Maker, and do good in this life. I mean, that 

 we puzzle not our felves over-much, nor difcruciate 

 our Spirits to refolve what are the caufes, and what 

 the manner of caufation of the apparent effeils of 

 Gods great power , any further then as our labour 

 may ferve for thofe excellent and firmly together in- 

 terwoven ends of rejoycing and doing good, and the 

 rather j becaufe of the experiment which this moft 

 wife Prince* who was helpt by the great riches of his 

 then puiffant Kingdome , ( and fo not impeded by 

 thofe wants that ufually difcomfit private perfons in 

 fuch enquiries ) made himfelf and publifhed concer- 

 ning his own fearch , JEccL i , That be gave his heart to 



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