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BELIEF of a G O D. 
III. 
<£ While all the flars around her burn y 
<£ And all the planets in their turn , 
££ Proclaim the tidings as they roll , 
££ And fpread the truth from pole to pole. 
IV. 
££ What tho\ in folemn filence , all 
££ Move round this dark t err ef rial hall ; 
££ What thd no real voice , nor founds 
££ Amidft their radiant orbs be found : 
V. 
££ In reafons ear they all rejoice , 
££ And utter forth a glorious voice , 
££ For ever finging as they Jhine , 
££ "The hand that made us is divine ! *' 
Thus far Mr. addison, to the beft of my memory. Indeed if we 
obferve attentively, either the calm or tremendous operations of 
nature : if we mark only common appearances ; the amaz- 
ing beauty and variety of the viftble world ; with the wonderful 
powers of human reafon, and the order of moral agents: do they 
not all convince the philofopher, and the peafant ; the chriftian, 
and the jew ; the mahommedan, and the heathen, of the domi- 
nion of a first cause, from which all things muft derive their 
exigence, and on which all things muft depend ? I am yours, 
Wc. 
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