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Rh a borrowed, but with a native lustre: which circumstance, in conjunction with their immense distances, is a convincing proof, that they must be suns in their respective worlds or systems, similar in use to our sun in it's system: and if so, it will thence follow, that there are planetary bodies revolving round each, and as many distinct worlds or systems as there are fixed stars or suns.

So immense a whole must have been created, and be still supported, for some great and worthy end: and this surely can be nothing less than the kingdom of heaven, as before observed, wherein beings gifted with intelligence and love from their adorable Creator may be happy to eternity. For the visible universe, or the heaven resplendent with stars innumerable, which are so many suns, is only a medium for the existence of earths; and these again are only mediums for the existence of men upon them, of whom may be formed an angelic heaven in a purer sphere than that of nature. From which considerations every rational mind may safely conclude, that means so immense, adapted to produce so great an end, were not constituted for the inhabitants of one earth, one solitary planet only, or for an angelic heaven to be derived merely from them but that the Divine Being, who is infinite, and to whom thousands, yea millions of earths, all full of inhabitants, are comparatively as nothing, must hold in contemplation an end at once worthy of himself, and in some degree resembling the infinity of his nature.

The endless variety of uses arising from, and performed by, the many viscera, organs, vessels, fibres, &c. &c. in the human body, every one of which is indispensable to the well-being of the whole, and all of which blended in happy union give the intended result of health and vigour, opens in some faint degree