the prudence and art discovered in the feveral parts of the body of man. In the feventh, the fame demonftration is carried on from the contemplation of the instincts in brute animals, and the faculties and operations of the foul of man. The book concludes with a recapitulation of what has been treated of, and a Hymn to the Creator of the World. CREA CREATION. воок I. THE ARGUMENT. 5. The propofition. The invocation. The existence of a God demonftrated, from the marks of wifdom, choice, and art, which appear in the vifible world, and infer an intelligent and free caufe. This evinced from the contemplation, I. of the earth. 1. Its fituation. 2. The cohfion of its parts, not to be folved by any hypothefis yet produced. 3. Its ftability. 4. Its ftructure, or the order of its parts. Its motion diurnal and annual, or elfe the motion of the fun in both those respects. The caufe of these motions not yet accounted for by any philofopher. 6. Its outfide or face; the beauties and conveniences of it; its mountains, lakes, and rivers. II. The exiftence of a God proved from the marks and impreffions of prudence and defign, which appear in the fea. its formation. 2. The proportion of its parts in refpect of the earthy. 3. Its fituation. 4. The contexture of its parts. 5. Its brackish or briny quality. 6. Its flux and reflux. O more of courts, of triumphs, or of arms, N° 1. In No more of valour's force, or beauty's charms: The themes of vulgar lays, with just disdain, 1 leave unfung, the flocks, the amorous swain, The pleasures of the land, and terrors of the main. D 4 How How abject, how inglorious 'tis to lie I meditate to foar above the fkies, To heights unknown, through ways untry'd, to rife : And fing the wonders of creating art. Pass awful gulphs, and beat my painful way; Suftain me on thy ftrong extended wing, That I may reach th' Almighty's facred throne, 10 15 Lknown. And make his caufeless power, the caufe of all things, Rife to her heights, and to her depths defcend : 25 Thou on the deep's dark face, immortal Dove! 30 And all the beauties of the wondrous frame : Hence ftampt on nature we perfection find, See, through this vaft extended theatre Of skill divine what shining marks appear ! Creating power is all around exprest, The God difcover'd, and his care confeft. 35 Nature's Nature's high birth her heavenly beauties fhow; 40 The glorious orbs, which Heaven's bright hoft compose, With all the curious meteors hovering there, 45 And the wide regions of the land, proclaim 50 That end by means, and have it still in view, 55 Which freely moves, and acts by reafon's laws, Their due connexion with the end defign'd. And fince the world's wide frame does not include 60 A cause with fuch capacities endued ; Some other cause o'er nature must prefide, Which gave her birth, and does her motions guide.. And here behold the caufe, which God we name, The fource of beings, and the mind fupreme; 65 See, See, how the earth has gain'd that very place, 70 75 The earth and fea, it must have been the same. Who this event fortuitous believe, That the brute earth unguided should embrace Of all the millions in the empty space? Could stupid atoms with impetuous speed That all th' enamour'd troops fhould thither flow? And, when the squadrons with a fwift career 80 Had reach'd that point, why did they fettle there, 85 90 That unobstructed matter flies away, 95 Ranges the void, and knows not where to stay ? If |