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 has been made by an Omnipotent 

 Being, who, by giving it exiftence, 

 has, at the fame time, endowed it 

 with moft wonderful qualities and 

 powers, continually in action, and 

 tending with an aftonifhing har- 

 mony to one general end, the pre- 

 fervation of the whole. 



An upright mind, averfe to that 

 manner of living which induces 

 many to wifh, rather than really to 

 believe, that this world is not fu- 

 perintended by an intelligent Being, 

 takes delight in finding out thofe 

 deep defigns, which, by their ob- 

 vious tendency to promote the pre- 

 fervation of the whole, infpire him 

 with that awful reverence we owe 

 to the Supreme Gaufe of every thing, 

 and fill him with that confoling 

 expectation, that the only being up- 

 on earth capable of true reafon, and 



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