i82 ne Wisdom of GOD Parti. 



Further, from the Conlideration of our own 

 Smallnefs and Inconfiderablenefs, in refped: of 

 the Greatnefs and Splendor of thofe glorious 

 heavenly Bodies, the Sun, Moon, and Stars, 

 to which our Bodies bear no Proportion at all 

 either in Magnitude, or Luftre ; let us with the 

 Holy Pfalmiji raife up our Hearts to magnify 

 the Goodnefs of God towards us in taking fuch 

 Notice of us, and making fuch Provifion for us, 

 and advancing us fo highly above all his Works, 

 jy^/.viii. 3. When I conjider the Heavens^ the 

 Work of thy Fingers^ the Moon and the Stars which 

 thou haft ordained. What is Man that thou art 

 mindful of him ^ and the Son of Man that thou vi- 

 Jitef him ? For thou haji made him a little lower 

 than the Angels^ and haJi crowned him with Glory 

 and Honour^ &c. 



But it may be objedledj that God Almighty- 

 was not fo felfilh and defirous of Glory, as to, 

 make the World, and all the Creatures therein, 

 only for his own Honour, and to be praifed by 

 Man. To affert this, wxre, in Des Cartes' s> Opi- 

 nion, an abfurd and childifh Thing, and a re- 

 fembling of God to a proud Man. It is more 

 worthy the Deity, to attribute the Creation 

 of the World, to the Exundation and Overflow- 

 ing of his tranfcendent and infinite Goodnefs, 

 which is of its own Nature, and in the very 

 Notion of it, moft free, difFufive, and commu- 

 nicative. 



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