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 in an Age wherein Natural Religion is denied by many, and Revealed Religion by very many more, seemed highly important to be so far known at least, as that the Invisible Things of the Godhead may be clearly proved by the Things that are seen in the World. Wherefore I thought it might be Labour exceeding well spent, if, whilst I enquired into what was anciently known, and what is a new Discovery, I should at the same Time furnish my Mind with new Occasions of admiring the boundless Wisdom and Bounty of that Almighty and Beneficent Essence, in and by whom alone this whole Universe, with all its Parts, live, and move, and have their Being.

I had also a fresh Inducement to this Search, when I found to how excellent purpose my most learned and worthy Friend, Mr. Bentley, has, in his late Discourses