96 T6eWisD0M of GOD Parti. 



the Ken of Land; when they did,having no other 

 Guide but the Cynofura^ or Pole-Star, and thofe 

 near it, and in cloudy Weather none at all. 



As for Metals^ they are fo many ways ufeful 

 to Mankind, and thofe Ufes fo well known to 

 all, that it would be loft Labour to fay any thing 

 of them : Without the Ufe of thefe we could 

 have nothing of Cultule or Civility ; no Tillage 

 or Agriculture ; no Reaping or Mowing ; no 

 Ploughing or Digging ; no Pruning or Lopping, 

 Grafting, or Incifion ; no mec*hanical Arts or 

 Trades 5 no Veflels or Uteniils of Houfhold-ftufF; 

 no convenient Houfes or Edifices ; no Shipping 

 or Navigation. What a kind of barbarous and 

 fordid Life we muft neceflarily have liv'd, the 

 Indians in the northern Part of America are a 

 clear Demonftration. Only it is remarkable, 

 that thofe which are of moft frequent and ne- 

 ceflary Ufe, as Iron, Brafs, and Lead, are the 

 moft common and plentiful : Others that are 

 more rare, may better be fpar'd, yet are they 

 thereby qualified to be made the common Mea- 

 fure and Standard of the Value of all other Com- 

 modities, and fo ferve for Coin or Money, to 

 which Ufe they have been employed by all Civil 

 Nations in all Ages. 



' Now of what mighty Importance the Ufe of 

 Money is to Mankind, the learned and ingeni- 

 ous Dr. Cockbiirn (hews us, in the Second Part 

 of his Ejjdy concerning the Nature of Chrijiian 

 Faith, ^.88. Whenever, faith he, the Ufe of 

 Money began , it was an admirable Contri- 

 vance for rewarding and encouragnig Induftry, 



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