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 the Rays of all thoſe Luminaries that paſſed through it. The Galaxy appeared in its moſt beautiful White. To complete the Scene, the full Moon role at length in that clouded Majeſty, which Milton takes Notice of, and opened to the Eye a new Picture of Nature which was more finely ſhaded, and diſpoſed among ſofter Lights, than that which the Sun had before diſcovered to us.

As I was ſurveying the Moon walking in her. Brightneſs and taking her Progreſs among the Conſtellations, a Thought roſe in me which I believe very often perplexes and diſturbs Men of ſerious and contemplative Natures. David himſelf fell into it in that Reflection, When I conſider the Heavens the Work of thy Fingers, the Moon and the Stars which thou hast ordained; what is man that thon art mindful of him and the Son of Man that thou regardeſt him! In the ſame Manner when I conſidered that infinite Hoſt of Stars, or to speak more Philosophically, of Suns, which were then ſhining upon me, with those innumerable Sets of Planets or Worlds, which were moving round their respective Suns; when I ſtill enlarged the idea, and suppoſed another Heaven of suns and Worlds riſing ſtill above this which we diſcovered, and theſe ſtill enlightned by a superior Firmament of Luminaries, which are planted at so great a Diſtance, that they may appear to the Inhabitants of the former as the Stars do to us;