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or fresh, live, and breathe, and are fed, by 

 principles and elements communicated, either 

 mediately or immediately, from the atmospheric 

 ocean, an expanse that envelopes uninterruptedly 

 the whole of our globe, and which itself is fed 

 and renovated by the constant effluxes of the 

 great centre of irradiation ; which also in its 

 turn, as well as all the other orbs that burn and 

 are radiant, and those that revolve around them 

 and reflect their light, receive their all from 

 Him, that GREAT AND INEFFABLE BEING, who 

 gives to all and receives from none. But I lose 

 myself, in infinite amazement; I shrink into 

 very nothingness, when I reflect that such a 

 miserable worm as I am, so fallen and corrupted, 

 should presume to lift its thought so high, and 

 lose itself in the depths of the unfathomable 

 ocean of Deity. He has, however, commanded 

 us to seek him, and assured us we shall find 

 him if we seek him humbly and sincerely 

 he hath set before us his works and his word, 

 in both of which he has revealed himself to 

 us : and if our great object be to glorify him 

 rather than ourselves, we shall collect the 

 TRUTH from each, and shall find that they 

 deliver, though each in a different language 

 and style, the same mysteries ; for they are the 

 work and the word of the same Almighty Author, 

 and must, therefore, if rightly interpreted, deliver 

 the same truths, since they can no more con- 



