xvi The Author zo the Reader. | 
There is a Confcience’ in Man, in 
every Man; therefore there is a God, 
who, is Lord of Confcience, and to 
whom alone that Empire belongs. . 
I conclude the Argument with 
the Teftimonies of a few infpired 
Writers, which make it Canonical., 
‘Fob, for Antiquity and Integrity, 
juftly demands to be farft heard. 
Aft now the Beaffs, and they feall 
teach thee, and the Fowls of the Aity 
and they fhall tell thee; or [peak to 
the Earth, and it foall teach thee, 
and the Fifbes of the Sea fhall. de- 
clare unto thee. Who knoweth not 
‘in all thefe, that the Hand of tbe 
Lord hath wrought this? * 
~- Deplorable indeed is the State of 
apoftate Man, when he is fent to 
fuch Beetices as thefe for Inftruc- 
tion; to learn God's Power, and 
his univerfal Empire, that wife Pro- 
vidence, which guides and governs 
them all. 
The 
® Job xii. 7, 8, 9. 
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