"bo PABO WON un al- Juvroundimg Orb, 
“orb; and through dieit feveral Hofts of fftems up to the fape 
rior orb, ‘and its ambient atmofphere ! Trace it in'every pof 
“ible direction, from thé common centre to the utmoft verpe o. 
"that atmofphete; ahd the moft wonderful phenomena, in a rap4 
‘ture-in{piring fucceffion, ftrike the mental eye ! impréffng the 
idea of a complete whole, felf-balanced, and held in union by 
“Univerfal gravitation ! exhibiting a füperlatively grand fyftem of 
_fyftems, 
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bold in the giu, € ROUES ss effence 
Grand aid bapotficint as thie fy ftem is, there i .ano- 
ther incomparably more fo ; compofed of myriads of fach fyt- 
"tems, governed by the fame laws, and with it furrounded by an 
"immenfe orb, to nO aet the gravitation of the ied 
fyftems. | 
That other fyftem may bea part of a ftill more fplendid one, 
formed on the fame plan ; and this latter may enter into tha 
Sc ia of other fyftems, beyond comparifon fuperior to it : 
each. ng fyftem, ina regular progreftion, rifing in dig- 
nity um flendo And thus we may go on, enlarging” our 
idea of thofe fyftems, indefinitely. 
/ dh What i is there to check that idea, when we confider the in- 
: finity of fpace, in connection with the infinite wifdom, power 
and benevolence of the Author of nature ; and at the fame time 
reflect, that infinite {pace is the proper, and the only adequate 
| NRPS e Ss Vin of thofe perfections, and of fach s a cha- 
* Yefis, by introducing folid orbs, may pofübly, on 
view of it, be thought a revival of the ancient or 
R item, ‘and to grow out of it. | But on the con- 
i Puy, it wi be found, upon examination, totally inconfiftent 
with 
