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 First, there can be no just Reason assign'd, why an Experimenter should be prone to deny the Essence, and Properties of God, the universal Sovereignty of his Dominion, and his Providence over the Creation. He has before him the very same Argument to confirm his Judgment in all these; with which he himself is wont to be abundantly satisfy'd, when he meets with it in any of his Philosophical Inquiries. In every thing that he tries, he believes, that this is enough for him to rest on, if he finds, that not only his own, but the universal Observations of Men of all Times and Places, without any.mutual Conspiracy, have consented in the same Conclusion. How can he then refrain from embracing this common Truth, which is, witness'd by the unanimous Approbation of all Countries, the Agreement of Nations, and the secret Acknowledgment of every Man's Breast?

'Tis true, his Employment is about material Things. But this is fo far from drawing him to oppose invisible Beings, that it rather puts his Thoughts into an excellent good Capacity to believe them. In every Work of Nature that he handles, he knows that there is not only a gross Substance, which presents itself to all Mens Eyes; but an infinite Subtilty of Parts, which come not into the sharpest Sense. So that what the Scripture relates of the Purity of God, of the Spirituality of his Nature, and that of Angels, and the Souls of Men, cannot seem incredible to him, when he perceives the numberless Particles that move in every Man's Blood, and the prodigious Streams that continually flow unseen from every Body. Having found that his own Senses have been so far assisted by the Instruments of Art, he may sooner