THE EARTH. 273 



Still more to assimilate him to his Creator. God beholds with 

 pleasure that being which he has made, converting the wretch- 

 edness of his natural situation into a theatre of triumph ; bringing 

 all the headlong tribes of nature into subjection to his will ; and 

 producing that order and uniformity upon earth, of which his 

 own heavenly fabric is so bright an example. 



