where visible, and the characters very legible to the children of wisdom.

And it would go a great way to caution and direct people in their use of the world, that they were better studied and known in the creation of it.

For how could men find the confidence to abuse it, while they should see the great Creator stare them in the face, in all and every part thereof?

Their ignorance makes them insensible; and to that insensibility may be ascribed their hard usage of several parts of this noble creation: that has the stamp and voice of a deity every where, and in every thing, to the observing.

It is pity therefore that books have not been composed for youth, by some curious and careful naturalists, and also mechanics, in the Latin tongue, to be used in schools, that they might learn things with words; things obvious and familiar to them, and

which would make the tongue easier to be obtained by them.

Many able gardeners and husbandmen are ignorant of the reason of their calling; as most artificers are of the reason of their own rules that govern their excellent workmanship. But a naturalist and mechanic of this sort is master of the reason of both; and might be of the practice too, if his industry kept pace with his speculation; which were very commendable; and without which he cannot be said to be a complete naturalist or mechanic. &

Finally, if man be the index or epitome of the world, as philosophers tell us, we have only to read ourselves well, to be learned in it. But because there is nothing we less regard than the characters of the Power that made us, which are so clearly written upon us, and the world he has given us, and can best tell us what we are and should be, we are even strangers to our own genius:

the glass in which we should see that true, instructing, and agreeable variety, which is to be observed in nature, to the admiration of that wisdom and adoration of that Power, which made us all.

PRIDE.

And yet we are very apt to be full of ourselves, instead of him that made what we much value: and but for whom we can have no reason to value ourselves. For we have nothing that we can call our own; no, not ourselves; for we are all but tenants, and at will too, of the great Lord of ourselves, and the rest of this great farm, the world that we live upon.

But, methinks, we cannot answer it to ourselves, as well as our Maker, that we should live and die ignorant of ourselves, and thereby of him, and the obligations we are under to him for ourselves.

If the worth of a gift sets the obligation, and directs the return of the party that

receives it, he that is ignorant of it, will be at a loss to value it, and the giver for it.

Here is a man in his ignorance of himself: he knows not how to estimate his Creator, because he knows not how to value his creation. If we consider his make, and lovely compositure, the several stories of his wonderful structure, his divers members, their order, function, and dependency; the instruments of food, the vessels of digestion, the several transmutations it passes, and how nourishment is carried and diffused throughout the whole body, by most intricate and imperceptible passages; how the animal spirit is thereby refreshed, and, with an unspeakable dexterity and motion, sets all parts at work to feed themselves; and, last of all how the rational soul is seated in the animal, as its proper house, as is the animal in the body; I say, if this rare fabric alone were but considered by us, with all the rest by which it is fed and comforted, surely man would have a more reverent sense of the

power, wisdom, and goodness of God, and of that duty he owes to him for it. But if he would be acquainted with his own soul, its noble faculties, its union with the body, its nature and end, and the providence by which the whole frame of humanity is preserved, he would admire and adore his good and great God. But man has become a strange contradiction to himself; but it is of himself; not being by constitution, but corruption, such.

He would have others obey him, even his own kind; but he will not obey God, that is so much above him, and who made him.

He will lose none of his authority; no, not abate an ace of it. He is humorsome to his wife, beats his children, is angry with his servants, strict with his neighbors, revenges all affronts to the extremity; but, alas! forgets all the while that he is the man; and is more in arrear to God that is so very patient with him than they are to him, with whom he is so strict and impatient.

He is curious to wash, dress, and per