THE 
INTRODUCTION. 
T he farther refearches we make in- 
to this admirable feene of things, 
the more beauty and harmony we 
fee in them : And the ftronger and clearer 
Gonvidions they give us, of the being, power 
and wildom of the divine Archited, who 
has made all things to concur with a won- 
derful conformity, in carrying on, by va- 
rious and innumerable combinations of mat- 
ter, fuch a circulation of caufes, and efFeds, 
as was necelTary to the great ends of na- 
ture. 
And fince we are affured that the all wife 
Creator has obferved the molt exad propor- 
tions, of number y weight and meafurey in 
the make of all things 5 the moft likely way 
therefore, to get any infight into the na- 
ture of thofe parts of the creation, which 
come within our obfervation, muft in all 
reafon be to number, weigh and mcafure. 
And we have much encouragement to pur- 
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