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 whether or no we have not taken as much pains for our living, as our neighbours altho' not attended with the ſame ſucceſs. We apprehend, that the taking our child's life away, will be a circumſtance for which we will be condemned, but for our parts, we are perfectly eaſy upon that head; we are ſatisfied it is leſs cruelty to take the child with us, even ſuppoſing a ſtate of annihilation, as ſome dream of, than to leave her friendleſs in the world, expoſed to ignorance and miſery: now in order to obviate ſome cenſures which may proceed either from ignorance or malice, we think it proper to inform the world that we firmly believe the exiſtence of an almighty God, that this belief of ours is not an implicite faith, but deduced from the nature and reaſon of things, we believe the exiſtence of an almighty Being, from the conſideration of his wonderful works; from a conſideration of his innumerable, celeſtial and glorious bodies, from their wonderful order and harmony; we have alſo ſpent ſome time in viewing thoſe wonders which are to be ſeen in the minute part of the world, and that with great pleaſure and ſatisfaction, from all which particulars, we are ſatisfied, that ſuch amazing things could not poſſibly be without a firſt-mover, with out