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Nature's laws, yet has the pleafure and fatisfaftion they 

 have reaped repaid them their trouble. Though after 

 all our refearches, we are finally led to this- conclufion,. 

 that God's works, like his ways, are " paft finding, 

 out yet if there is* any fatisfa&ion in knowledge, or 

 any confolation in piety, thefe gratifications are to be 

 fought in, and will be reaped from attentive and mo- 

 de ft enquiries into Nature. " The works of the Lord 

 are great, fought cut of all them thai have pleafure 

 toe rein. 



Nature is nothing but the art of God ; a bright 

 difplay of that wifdofti, which demands an eternal tri- 

 bute of wonder and worfiiip. 



The notions which arife from Nature's light 

 As well adorn the mind as guide her right,, 

 Enlarge her compafs, and improve her light. 

 Thefe ne'er the breaft with vain ambition fire, 

 But baniih pride, and modefl thoughts infpire,. 

 By her informed we bleft religion learn, 

 Its glorious object by her aid difcern^ 

 The rolling worlds around us we furvey,. 

 Th' alternate fov'reigns of the night and day £ 

 View the wide earth adorn'd with hills and woodsy- 

 Rich in her herds, and fertile in her floods. 

 Walk through the deep apartments of the main r 

 Afcend the air to vifit clouds and rain : 

 And while we ravinYd gaze in Nature's face r 

 Remark her order, and her motions trace. 

 The long coherent chain of things we find 

 Leads to a caufe supreme, a wife creating mind*. 



Blackmore* 



Seeds of plants ftand firft to be confidered, and 

 they are truly wonderful. What large plants from 

 feeds no bigger than a grain of fand? What a ftately 

 $ak from a little acorn ? 



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