288 "Microscopical Essays. 



worms, (he chufes them of a proper fize, that they may be fiif* 

 ficient in quantity, and of an age that will not be in danger of 

 .perifhing with -hunger, in which cafe they would have been cor- 

 rupted ; (he therefore M&Hs them when they have their full 

 growth. It is alfo obferved, that if fhe chufes a larger fort .(lie 

 ogives. a lefs nu ruber of them, and fo reciprocally. 



" By thefe and fuch like in fiances, every rational mind may 

 confirm itfelf in favour of a Divine agency • for human reafon, 

 if it be fo difpofed, may collect and be convinced from the various 

 operations in the vifible world, that there is a God, and that he 

 is one ; '* a truth that is proved by innumerable teftimonies ; for 

 the univerfe is as a theatre, on which the evidence of the exig- 

 ence of a God and his unity are continually exhibited ; and from 

 thefe it may be feen, that God is the fole operator by and through 

 nature : for it is clear that nature cannot regard ufes as the ends 

 of her- operations, or difpofe fuch ufes into their orders and forms. 

 This is in the power of none but a wife being, and of confe- 

 quence of none but God. whofe wifdom being infinite, can fo 

 order and form the univerfe, as to make it a coherent and uniform 

 work, all promoting and forming a complex of ufes in orderly 

 arrangement, for the? fervice of man, who is to be a conftituent 

 of heaven : for the Divine Love cannot defign any other end be- 

 fides the eternal happinefs of the human race, by the communi- 

 cation of itfelf, and the Divine Wifdom can produce nothing but 



.ufes 



* The fyftem one, one Maker Hands confefs'd, 

 The prime, the one, the wond'rous and the blefs'd. 

 The one in various forms of unity exprefs'd. 



Brooke's 1 Univerfal Beauty, b. iii. 



