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 homage of grateful minds. Now, may not these philosophers be still occupied in their glorious researches? May not Newton still be seeking after, as he modestly terms them, the pebbles of truth? May not Locke contemplate, with more eager desire to know them, the perfections of the great Supreme? or Boyle, or Ray, or Swedenborg, more spiritually investigate his glorious works? Who shall doubt it? There are, then, employments in heaven.

GYPT is so frequently mentioned in Scripture, sometimes in condemnation, and sometimes in commendation, that it may be easily proved that it denotes the scientific principle. This principle, when guided by reason and governed by religion, is a noble principle; and it is included in one of the divine blessings in the following words: "In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land: whom the Lord of Hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance." (Isa. xix. 24, 25.) But when this principle acknowledges not the source whence it is derived, but impiously turns its back on it, and asks, with its governing principle, Pharaoh, "Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice?" it brings itself