First, There is an Humble Acknowledgement of God, wherewith we are to behold his works of CREATION, and the winter may be our leisure for it. The Psalmist having mentioned the Evening, when men lay by their labour, he presently adds, in Psal 104. 24. O Lord how manifold are thy Works! in wisdom hast Then made them all. As if then were a leisure for such a meditation! Truly thus in the winter, when we throw up our other Labour; we should then, Behold these manifold works of God. We should not in the winter become such Recluses as to forget that we are, The Citizens of the world; but then take a Range about the works of our God in the World. The very name of The World, in the Language of the Bible signifies Beautiful, and […] in the winter it looses much of is Beauty, yet we are then more at Leisure to behold its Beauty. It was the Demand of the Psalmist, in Psal. 148. 7.8. Praise the Lord, ye Hall, Snow, and Vapour, and Stormy wind: fulfilling his word. Why, The Snow, and Vapour and stormy wind, and the rest of the Winter, do demand of us, to Praise the Lord, for what of, The Lord, is to be seen in them, and not in them alone, but in all other Creatures. It is a most Glorious Variety of Objects, which we have to behold on this little Terraqueous Globe, We are at present sojourners. ⟨p. 19⟩There, to pass over the Numberless Fossils in the Bowels of the Globe, which probably contains above Ten Thousand Millions of Cubic German Leagues, with how many Animate Bodies are we Entertained? Of Beasts, including Serpents, we may reckon about an Hundred and Fifty Species. The Volatils, of Birds, have been reckoned about Five Hundred; The Aquatils, or Fish, have also been reckoned about Five Hundred. The Shells Fish more than as many more. The Vegetables or Plants, of our Universe have been counted about Six Thousand; and the Insects, both Terrestrial and Aquatil, more than Ten Thousand. But there are many other Animals to be also Beheld by us, which never could have been Beheld, until fit Instruments were Invented for the doing of it. The Whales, those moving Islands of more than an Hundred Foot in Length, are not of a Structure so Exquisite, so Stupendous, as those Animals, whereof our Microscopes infallibly assure us, that many Thousands together would not equal the least Grain of our common Sand.
First, There is an Humble Acknowledgment of God, wherewith we are to behold his works of CREATION, and the winter may be our liesure for it. The Psalmist having mentioned the Evening, when men lay by their labour, he presently adds, in Psal 104. 24. O Lord how manifold are thy Works! in wisdom hast Then made them all. As if then were a liesure for such a meditation! Truly thus in the winter, when we throw up our other Labour; we should then, Behold these manifold works of God. We should not in the winter become such Recluses as to forget that we are, The Citizens of the world; but then take a Range about the works of our God in the World. The very name of The World, in the Language of the Bible signifies Beautiful, and 〈…〉 in the winter it looses much of is Beauty, yet we are then more at Liesure to behold its Beauty. It was the Demand of the Psalmist, in Psal. 148. 7.8. Praise the Lord, ye Hall, Snous, and Vapour, and Stormy wind: fulfilling his word. Why, The Snow, and Vapour and stormy wind, and the rest of the Winter, do demand of us, to Praise the Lord, for what of, The Lord, is to be seen in them, and not in them alone, but in all other Creatures. It is a most Glorious Variety of Objects, which we have to behold on this little Terraqueous Globe, We are at present sojourners. ⟨p. 19⟩There, to pass over the Numberless Fossils in the Bowels of the Globe, which probably contains above Ten Thousand Millions of Cubic German Leagues, with how many Animate Bodies are we Entertained? Of Beasts, including Serpents, we may reckon about an Hundred and Fifty Species. The Volatils, of Birds, have been reckoned about Five Hundred; The Aquatils, or Fish, have also been reckoned about Five Hundred. The Shells Fish more than as many more. The Vegetables or Plants, of our Universe have been counted about Six Thousand; and the Insects, both Terrestrial and Aquatil, more than Ten Thousand. But there are many other Animals to be also Beheld by us, which never could have been Beheld, until fit Instruments were Invented for the doing of it. The Whales, those moving Islands of more than an Hundred Foot in Length, are not of a Structure so Exquisite, so Stupendous, as those Animals, whereof our Microscopes infallibly assure us, that many Thousands together would not equal the least Grain of our common Sand.
