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honour of God, the highly-gifted Brocks,* has alluded to 
such people in a trenchant, though short, poem, in order, if 
possible, to bring them to repentance. 
“ Saint John says well, that if a man shall say, 
‘I loye the Lord,’ and yet shall love his brother not, 
He is indeed 
Most worthily 
A liar called ; 
For he who hates his brother whom he sees, 
And whom before his eyes for proof has got, 
How can he then love God, whom he sees not? 
And Nature’s book, too, says, if any say, 
‘J honour God,’ whom in His works he honours not, 
He is indeed 
Most worthily 
A liar called; 
For he who holds the works of God unfit 
For careful thought, although he sees them plain, 
How can he honour God, whom he sees not?” 
Truly, the contempt which a man has for the creature is a 
clear proof of contempt for the Creator himself: for whosoever 
shall despise the Master’s work, which is wrought out in 
every part perfect and with excellent wisdom, he despises 
_indeed the Master himself. Let no man advance here the 
argument that a.difference must be made between one creature 
and another, and that the most despicable need not be 
regarded. Nothing throughout Nature is low. I say that the 
great Creator has made nothing which is unworthy of our 
observation and admiration. Is there a lower object than a 
grain of sand? And yet what a wonder-work of the Most 
High; for no mortal, however ingenious and powerful he be, 
can make even that out of nothing. How much rather 
should we wonder in abasement whenever we attentively 
observe a despised insect? A thoughtful mind perceives as 
much art, wisdom, and might, in the construction of the 
smallest fly, as in that of the largest elephant; for it would 
be more possible (or it would at least seem more easy of | 
comprehension) fur a man to make an elephant than to 
produce a minute animal, such as a fly, and supply it with 
eyes, mouth, heart, lungs, belly, and other internal and 
outward parts, and everything else most perfectly prepared. 
But why do I talk of the smallest fly or other insect? The 
* In his ‘Irdisch Verguiigen in Gott.,’ p. 534, of the fourth Hamb, edition. 
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