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8 reach any of Man’s Eye; and many of them it’s likely, of the bet Glaes, o that they don’t eem to belong to us; is it uch an unreaonable Opinion to think, that there are ome reaonable Creatures who ee and admire thoe glorious Bodies at a nearer ditance?

But perhaps, they’ll ay, it does not become us to be o curious and inquiitive in thee Things which the Supreme Creator eems to have kept for his own Knowledge: For ince he has not been pleaed to make any father Dicovery or Revelation of them, it eems little better than preumption to make any inquiry into that which he has though fit to hide. But thee Gentlemen mut be told, that they take too much upon themelves when they pretend to appoint how far and no father Men hall go in their Searches, and to et bounds to other Mens Indutry; as if they knew the Marks that God has placed to Knowledge: or as if Men were able to pas thoe Marks. If our Forefathers had been at this rate crupulous, we might have