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advocates on the latter fide, that they had 

 difcover'd by the light of nature, one only 

 God — As therefore the Oak above all other 

 parts of the lower creation lhar'd their moft 

 favourite afFedions, from the captivating 

 form of it*s outward frontifpiece— it's lofty 

 colonnade gilt with filver'd bark — it's aw- 

 ful venerable and majeflick head, together 

 with the many grand and magnificent ufes 

 it was capable of being put to in their 

 times — Nor do I offer thefe as all the con- 

 fiderations thereupon, which they might be 

 invited to look up to one fole divine Being 

 for the author. And I believe there is no 

 believer of the like kind now but has feme 

 one more favourite proof than other of the 

 fame, from his own appropriate genius. 

 Galen is faid to have received his conviili-- 

 on of the like fort, from the fkin of the lower 

 part of the foot. 



For my own part I (hould not think I 

 did my duty as a ?nodern Druid, did I not 

 glorify the divine Being, over and above 

 the confiderations mentioned, for that Group 

 of miracles that is to be found within it, 

 fince the microfcope has open'd the cabi- 

 net, and difcovered truths which other* 



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