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claim this privilege as a right ; but that in His over- 

 flowing beneficence, and in perfect accordance with 

 all His vast designs, He has endowed us with these 

 powers of will and intellect, as the means best adapted 

 for the attainment of the ends He had in view in our 

 creation. 



That He has, moreover, in thus constituting us, 

 guaranteed our perfect happiness, provided we faith- 

 fully exercise our heavenly prerogative, wOl surely 

 need no proof, and whilst, through the contemplation 

 of that unity of design and development everywhere 

 visible in Creation, we are permitted to form some 

 faint conception of the Creator, it behoves us on 

 every favourable and fitting occasion to express to 

 Him our gratitude, not only for having formed us in 

 His own image, but for having fitted to our uses 

 these and all His other Humble Creatures. 



FINIS. 



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