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the complacency it always begets in the 

 mind : but fhould it prove the happy inflru- 

 ment of diverting any from foolifh and un- 

 manly purfuits to the rational ftudy of God's 

 works, and the contemplation of his fub- 

 lime attributes, manifefted therein, which 

 is the natural tendency of fuch a ftudy, 

 my time and labour have not been employe4 

 in vain. 



Uxbridge, 

 July 24, 1777. 



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