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the Creation, from which God is faid to have 

 refted upon the Seventh Day. 



It is not likely that Eternal Life (hall be a tor- 

 pid and unadlive State, or that it fhall confift 

 only in an uninterrupted and endlefs Ad: of Love; 

 the other Faculties ihall be employed as w^ell as 

 the Will in Adions fuitable to and perfedive of 

 tjaeir Natures; efpecially the Underftanding, the 

 fupreme Faculty of the Soul, which chiefly dif- 

 ferenceth us from brute Beafts, and makes us ca- 

 pable of Virtue' and Vice, of Rewards and Pu- 

 niihments, fhall be bufy'd and employed in con- 

 templating the V^orks of God, and obferving 

 the divine Art and Wifdom, manifefted in the 

 Structure and Compofition of them, and refledl- 

 ing upon their great Architect the Praife and 

 Glory due to him ; then fhall we clearly fee, 

 to our great Satisfaction and Admiration, the 

 Ends and Ufes of thefe things, which here were 

 either too fubtle for us to penetrate and difcover, 

 or too remote and unacceiTible for us to come to 

 any 'diflindl View of, viz, the Planets and fixed 

 Stars, thofe illuflrious Bodies, whofe Contents 

 and Inhabitants, whofe Stores and Furniture, we 

 have here fo longing a Delire to know, as alfo 

 their mutual Subferviency to each other. Now 

 the Mind of Man being not capable at once to 

 advert to more than one thing, a particular View 

 and Examination of fuch an innumerable Num- 

 ber of vaft Bodies, and the great Multitude of 

 Species, both of animate and inanimate Beings, 



which 



