138 BELIEF of a GOD. 
could you, or I, or any rational being, derive our reafon, and 
all the faculties of our souls, but from fome first cause, 
which poffefies thefe powers in perfection ? Or what workman 
could contrive and execute fo admirable a piece of machinery, as 
a human body, but fome agent whofe wifdom, knowledge, and 
power, is incomprehenfible to our finite capacities ? How can 
fuch effects be without a cause ; and what could this caufe 
be lefs than a god ? This belief is not only founded in reason, 
and the almoft univerfal confent of mankind, but reason is 
corroborated by faith, faith in an invifible and incomprehen- 
fible being, derived from the evidence of things feen. Reafon 
and faith having received a fatisfa&ory teftimony, our very 
senses alfo compel us to acknowledge this great truth. What 
do we fee, or hear, or feel, that, if we attempt to trace it to 
a firfk caufe, does not enforce the belief of a god ? Look 
up to the heavens ; behold the fun, moon, and ftars ; or down 
on the earth, and afk yourfelf if every objeCt does not proclaim 
his exiftence, together with his wifdom and power ? 
I. 
44 The fipacious firmament on high , 
44 And all the blue ether ial Jky , 
44 And fp angled heavens , a Jhining frame , 
44 Their great original proclaim. 
II. 
“ Soon as the evening filar s prevail , 
44 The moon takes up the wond'rous tale , 
44 And nightly to the lift? fling earthy 
44 Declares the fiory of her birth . 
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