ought all to adore, and praise the Divine Father of lights, who still continues to uphold the same in the firmament of the heavens, whereby his glory is declared, and his handy works displayed to our view: and especially in our solar system, once so dark. Who made for it, great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser, or reflected light of the moon, to rule the night; to be the lights of this world, and the light of our eyes, those windows of our soul, through which it looks, from its earthly house of this tabernacle, upon the marvellous works of its Almighty Creator. The gracious Lord hath so done his marvellous works, that they ought to be had in remembrance.

The works of God indeed are marvellous, both in our eyes and in our understanding, from the least to the greatest, in every department of nature, and providence; as well in the animate, as in the inanimate, and especially in the department of living creatures, that move, wherein there is life.

SECTION III.-DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE WORKS OF GOD, AND THOSE OF MEN.

These works of God are living works, how unlike the works of men's hands, which are all dead works! The Almighty can animate whatever he pleases by his word, even the dust of the earth. Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return. And He can say, come again, ye children of men, and reanimate after the body has returned to the dust as it was. But man so far from being able to animate any thing, first destroys the vital principle, wherever it has been bestowed, in every thing he uses, or operates upon: whether they be vegetable, or animal: and were it not for the imperious law of nature, implanted by the Creator in living creatures, in addition to that of life; whereby they are commanded to increase, and multiply; how soon would all become extinct considering the shortness of their lives, even if they were not devoured. The same may be observed respecting vegetable produce, devoid of the

principle of dissemination, and reproduction implanted in addition to that of vegetable life, which in many cases is short indeed, lasting but one season, how soon would all be worn out, and disappear, like the dead works of man!

Were it not for the power of reproduction in all things used as food, especially that of the vegetable kingdom to begin with, as constituting the food of the lower animals, destined as they were to become the prey or food of other orders; how soon would all the eaters in this system of eating, from the lowest to the highest, be without a supply of food, and thence become extinct.

"From nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike."

Break the staff of life, or the vegetable bread of the inferior orders, and the supply for all the superior would soon come to be scarce. Even the entire vegetable kingdom may be said to require a supply of food, or manure, consisting of the dung of all animals, whereby the earth is rendered more

fertile, plants derive more Doctistment from it, and grow and Branish more Caramantly, aforting a more stealant son of this the Erst Decessity of an old be. The vegetable creation being the first iz teber, that was created to that eol. Itaklike to azinal manure, the vegetable Kagice is also reprecished by all deal and demyed substances, whether belonging to its own department, or to that of animals; so that in meeves back, in a constant cycle of returns whatever it may have previously lost and bence an abandamı supply of food for the useful creatures is periodically remmed and perpetuared What are all the less perishable works of man from the least to the greatest, compared with all the living and moving, and even the inanimate works of God! But as insignideant as the works of emmets, or the ilcinated works of mason and carpenter bees, and the paper and wax-works of other bees and wasts, and the textile works of insect spinners, and weavers as calls and six-worms, caterpillars and spiders, are com pared to those of man?

Were these marvellous works of providence anything like the dead works of men, devoid of the principle of life, or living reproduction, they would, like the latter, be continually wearing out, or becoming extinct, and a new supply would have to be made, by the constant repetition of the original work of creation, as at the beginning of the world.

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But not so the works of Him who made

After having created the world, the place of our habitation, and furnished it with every requisite, first for our food and clothing, which being derived from vegetable and animal productions, these were prevented from becoming extinct, by the divine ordinance of propagation in plants, and of reproduction of their kind by living creatures, created male and female, reproduced from the smallest atoms and germs; implanted, growing and increasing, and continually coming up, in their progenitors' stead, in regular succession, from one generation to another. The fecundity of each species, as well as the length of their lives.