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there
are
multitudes
of
new
strange
creatures that
we
read
of
in
the
narratives
of
foreign
countries
:
And what
a
vast
profusion
of
entertainments
for them
all
?
How
are the
mountains
and
meadows
adorned
with
a sur-
prizing plenty
of
grass
and
herbs,
fruits and
flowers,
almost
infinite, for
the use
of
man
and
meaner
animals
?
In
the
world
of
waters
a thousand unknown
creatures
swim
and sport
themselves, and
leap
with excess
of
life
even
in
the freezing
seas.:
Millions
of
inhabitants
rangge
through
that
liquid wilderness
with swiftest motion,
and
in the
wonders
of
their
frame and
nature proclaimthe
skill
of
an Almighty
Maker. Others of the watry kind are
but
half
alive,
and are
tossed
from place
to
place
by
the
heaving.ocean. Think of
the
leviathan,
the
eel,
and the
Oyster,
and tell
me
if God
has
not
shewn a
rich variety
of
contrivance
in them :
And
as
various
as
their nature
is,
so
"arious
is
the means
of their
life; proper
beds
of
lodging are provided for them, and variety
of
food
suited
to uphold
every
nature.
Mankind
is
a world
of
itself,
made up
of
the mingled
or
united
natures of
flesh
and
spirit.
What
an
infinite
difference
of
faces
and features among the
sons
and
daughters
of
men
?
And
how
much more various
are the
turns
of their
appetites, tempers, and inclinations,
their
humours and
passions
?
And what glorious employment
bath
divine wisdom
ordained
for itself,
in framing
these
millions
of creatures
with
understandings and
wills
of
so
inconceivable
a variety,
so
vast
a
difference
of
genius
and inclination,
to be the
subjects
of
its
providential go-
vernment
?
And what a surprizing harmony
is
there
in
the
immense
and incomprehensible
scheme
of
divine
counsels,
arising
from
the various
stations
and businesses
of
men
so
infinitely
diversified,
and,
distinct
from one
another,
and centring
in
one
great
end the divine
glory?
An amazing contrivance, and a
design
worthy of
God.
Now
is
the
pure intellectual
world
alone
destitute
of
this
delightful variety
?
Is
the
nature of
spirits
utterly
incapable
of
this diversity
and
beauty,
without
the aids
of
flesh
and blood
?
Rath
the
wisdom
of
God
displayed
no riches
of contrivance there
?
And must there
be
such
'a
dull uniformity
no where
but
in'
the country
Where
spirits
dwell,
spirits the
noblest parts
of
God's creation
and dominion
?
.
Has
he
poured out
all
the.
various glo-
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