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126 to the Sons of Men, we must raise our Thoughts, and enlarge our Minds, and search all the Treasures of Knowledge for every Thing that is great, wonderful: and magniﬁcent: We can only express our Thoughts of the Creator in the Works of His Creation; and the brightest of these can only give us some faint Shadows of His Greatness and His Glory. The strongest Figures are too weak, the most exalted Language too low to ex-press His ineffable Excellence. No Hyperbole can be brought to heighten our Thoughts, for in so sublime a Theme nothing can be Hyperbolical. The Riches of Rh