20 A PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE. 
When we contemplate the works of nature, animate and in- 
animate, connected with our earth ; obferve the immeníe num- 
ber and variety of them ; their Aene beauty and contri- 
vance ; and the ufes to which they are adapted :—when we 
raifé our view to the heavens, and behold the beauteous and 
aftonifhing fcenes they prefent to us—unnumbered worlds 
revolving in the immeafurable expanfé ; fyftems beyond fyftems 
"compofing one boundlefs univerfe : and all.of them, if we may 
argue from analogy, peopled with an :endlefs variety of inhabi- 
' tants:— When we contemplate thefe works of nature, which no 
"human eloquence can adequately defcribe, they force upon us 
the idea of a SUPREME "eee the ERU eei perfect 
-author of them,— Dii 
“E That-univerfaly firt, which’ forms, 
** Pervades, and actuates the wond'rous whole." 
“In ved diss whom "his works, great and ftupendous as 
- they are, are ** nothing, lefs than nothing, and vanity." But— 
- though annihilated by the comparifon, yet—viewed in them- . 
felves, they powerfully perfuade us to exclaim, in the rapturous 
and fublime language of infpiration, * Great and marvellous 
are thy works, LORD GOD almighty, in wifdom haf 
. thou made them all.” 
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