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jedts, they would be like pearl thrown before 
fwine. I befeech you then, who afk me with 
a fneer to what end this or that ftone, plant 
or animal ferves,- i befeech you to awake, 
and open your eyes while you live in this 
world. All thefe things are not the work 
of man, but of wifdom itfelf, which created 
both thee and me. He has fettled an ceci> 
nomy in this globe, that is truly admirable 
by means of an infinite number of bodies, 
and all neceflary, which bear fame refemblance 
to one another ; fo that they are linked together 
like a chain. For as in our oeconomy neither 
the plough, nor the hedges, nor the dunghill 
are fit for food, or phyfic, yet are abfolutely 
neceffary, fo in the oeconomy of nature there 
are many things, that are as neceflary, but 
not immediately. Men reckon their (econo- 
my amongft the chief of human inventions, 
confider then the fublimity of the divine oeco- 
nomy. You fee therefore that it mull at laft 
be granted me according to the opinion of 
divines and philofophers, that every thing was 
created for the ufe of man, and man for the 
glory of the Creator. Can you then believe, 
that any thing can be ufelefs that ferves not 
for food, or phyfic ? The Creator has fo framed 
the 
