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dual are not wanting; and will no longer be 

 oppressed or disturbed by the apprehension 

 that the superintendence of the world may 

 be too difficult for its Ruler, and that any of 

 His subjects and servants may be overlooked. 

 He will no more fear that the moral than that 

 the physical laws of God's creation should be 

 forgotten in any particular case : and as he 

 knows that every sparrow which falls to the 

 ground contains in its structure innumerable 

 marks of the Divine care and kindness, he will 

 be persuaded that every man, however appa- 

 rently humble and insignificant, will have his 

 moral being dealt with according to the laws of 

 God's wisdom and love; will be enlightened, 

 supported, and raised, if he use the appointed 

 means which God's administration of the world 

 of moral light and good offers to his use. 



CHAPTER IV. 



On the Impression produced by the Contemplation 

 of Laws of Nature ; or, on the Conviction that 

 Law implies Mind. 



THE various trains of thought and reasoning 

 which lead men from a consideration of the 

 natural world to the conviction of the existence, 

 the power, the providence of God, do not require, 



