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 all that I could say would be but a repetition of what had already been written by the many learned and ingenious Naturalists, whose sole aim it has been to demonstrate the existence and perfections of  from the works of Creation. I shall therefore take it for granted, that as  is wise and good, all his works and appointments must be the effects of wisdom and goodness.

Upon this principle, every creature of  is good in its kind; that is, it is such as it ought to be. For to suppose otherwise, is to arraign the divine Wisdom for making it such as it is. And as every creature is good in its kind, and did not make itself what it