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Show !ho Rejlellions an<"t Maxitiis;1'jlq ~rll v.l>L: <11 169'· Prince Dr SubjeU, Malter Dr Servant, Single cr Married, i'ub!ick or P~ivate, ~ Mean or Honoura~le, Rich or Poor, .Profperous ot lmprofperous,. m .Peace-· or Gonnoverfy, 111 Bufinefs ot; ~laude: Wbat~er be thy !nclmatt~n or·. ..A.verfion, PraOice or Duty, thou tGtlt find fometbmg not unjurtably faul /or thy DireOion and AJv~nrage. .Accep~ and Improve wba! deftrvtt thy N~~-> rice; t1Jt ~eft cxcufe, and place to .Acto11nt Of good Wtll to thee lfid tbe t»IJo!e CrtattM of God. Port. I. ~ RefieCl:ions and Maxims. l "~ • ,, " ]BI\Otlllte. JT is admirable to confider how ma~y Millions of Peo· ple come into, and go out of the- Wofld, Ignorant of rbemfelvts, and-of the World they have ~ived in. . · . . \ ··~ 2. If one went to fee Windfor·Gifl!e, or flamptctC•urr-1! would be ftpnge not to obferve and remember rlte Situa~ion. the• Building, the Gardens, Fountains et e. that make up the Beauty and Pleafure of fuch a S9t: 'A:pd yet few People knt>w d\.emfchtes: No, no~ thCir M»n Bodin, rb,e 'HoUfes of their Minds, the moft curious Stru8ure of \qe World; a livi"l t11alf<. ing Tabernacle: Nor the World of whl·ch it was· made, and Qut of which it is fed; which would be fo much Ou -B'enefir, as wen as our Plcafure,j to' know. We cannot Doubt of this when we are told •thar tht:'invifible Things of God are brought to light by 'tJ,relfhings\hat'are fe'en, and' con· fequently we read our Dutf in them, as often "as we;loo'k upoa,_ them, to\hinr that is the Great and Wile Author·of th~m if we lqbk it•,we !llould ap. ' ·• ;. The World is certainly .a great .and1ftatcly Volume"(/f Qa\ural Things 1 • and may be not impr.opeily lliled the lfirrcglypbi~kt'M '3 better: But, alas,how ve'fY few leaves of it .lio we ferioufly turn ov.ct! 'l'his ought, to be't!tC" Sohjefl of the Edu'cation of out Y9uth, who, •1 Twenty, when they tbould be fit for BdfineB, know little or nothing oft~. · "'11.,. _·;·;. \. 4· cJ!Out\ltWn. We art in Pai~ to .ma~e them,S,cMI:V5, but ,not Mtn !. To talk, rather tbah to know;, wtuch ts true Cani-I'Ag-. · ' S· The firft Thing obvious 'to Children is what·isftirfiPl•• and tbat we make no Parr of their Rudiments. ' \. .. 't .... 6. We prefs their Memory too foon, apd.jJUzzle,'. ffiain and load them -with Words and Rules; ·• to know GT-4nlR1111' and Rbttorltk, and a fiunge· Tongue or two, that it is 'ten to oqe .may never be ufefu} to them ; 1eavin~ their natural Genius to.Me-cbaniu/'ar\d Phyfitalor na\ural'Knowledge unculu· vated and negleCted; which would be -of exceedi(1g Ufe' "''d Pleafure to them through the whole"Courfe of theit [.'ife. t\.. ,, 7· To be lure, Languages are not to be defpifed or negletled. But '(hings ~eftilltobepreferred. ' ·• '\;''' S. Children had rarher be making of TQQls and Inftrume~ts of Play; Sbapfrtg, Dr4wing, Framing and B11iltling, f5~. tb:ln getting fom~ Rules of Propriety of Speech by Heart: And thofe alfo would follow with more Judgment, and lefs Trouble and Time:. • 9· It were hapt~Y if we ftudied Natu're more in natural Things; ~nd aa· cd according to Nature; whofe Rules a,re few, plain 3nd mofl rtafonab/t. 10. Let us begin where fhe begins, go her P-ace, and clofe always where file ends, and we cannot mifs of being good N4turalijls. H. The Creation would not he longer -a Riddle to us : The Heaytnr, Eartb and Waur.r, with their refpec!Uve, various and numerous Inhabitants: Their ProduE\:ions. Natures, Se:1fons, Sympathies and Antipathies\ their Ufe, Benefit and Pleafure, . would be better underft90d by u•: And an Eur• na/ Wijdom, Pototr, ]'(IIIjtfly and Goodntfs. very con/piclloiiS to us; through t)lof~ fenfible aud pa!ling Forms : The World wearing t~e Mark of it"s • · J Malter, VoL. ,). R.e:fie~'lions and _M4l<imt. , Maker, whofe Stamp is ~ver wh . lb r b!c to the Children of Wifd y ere Vtfible, and the Cbaratl . 12. Anl it woul!l 0 a om. ers Vety legt· r6~; Ufe of the World th~ h grear Way to caution and direE\ p . ~ tion of it. , t t ey were hence !tudied and knowio iple tn their Par~{. r;. For how could Men 6 d h g n the Crea· lhould fee the Great Creator IO::k \ e Confidence to abufe it wh'l thereof? t em In the Face, in all a'nd ev~re pbey 14. Th~refore Ignorance makes h . y an tardly mtfufing this Noble Cre.ni t e~ mfenfible, and that lnfenfibT euyelve.ry ~here, and in every Thfn'a t at ,has the s.camp and Voice ~PY 1 ) . t 1S Pity therefore that B eo.• to t le ObfervJng. a by fome curious and careful Nat~o~~J·l\'e not been compofed for y h Tongpe,...ro be ufed i School ra I s, and alfo M~chamcks in h out., Things obvious .and ~rnHiar ~~ ~iat they migl~r Ieafn Things ~vic~ W~J~~ cafier to be-awuned by them. em, and whtch would ma~e the To: ~~ r6. Many able Gardeners and H ba g ron o( thetr Calling I as moft Au~ namen are y~t ignorant of the"Rule~ that govern rhcir excellent ,~'6k'"' ar~ of thel;l.eafon of t'h 1"~1~· c:anpjiCk '(I rhis Sorr, is Malter of rh~ 'R'n~tp. f!lut a N3turalill;ag · , t e ra~bce too, if his Inc!ufir k_ ~ pea on o both, and migh't l £l were vary ..c. fmme~da~e 1 and ~dr~~~ 3~.e :_vfhrh hfs Speculation; 'wPr:h compleat J'>o(Jturahfl or MechJnick w ICu. c cannot be faic.l to 'be 'l· FITally, if Man be the lnde~ o E . . , ' a phers te us, ~e have only to read our rcfttomy of the World, as Philo(o. . becaufe t~ere ts no[hing we left r e ves well to be learn'd in it B t~at maile us; which are fo clearl;~~f~t tha~ the Characteu of the ·Pow~~ gtv{n us, ,an4~ can belt tell ua what we a:ena ujon us and the \Vorld he has ~eJ;S. a.to our oym Gen1 us: The Glafs ~in wh~ hih9ut~ f?e, w~ arc even Stran· · ru~mg; and a_greeabls Variety which is t tc we flwuld fee that true in-, Admuauon of-thar Wifdom ;nd Ad ? be qbferved in Nature, to the us all. orauon of that Power which made r8. t!cfbe. And yer we are very t"" Him that made what we fo much 1 apt to be full o ·our (elves fnftead of Reafon to value our felves. For:/ hue; and, but for whom we ~n have no no, nor our felves; For we are all bave rorbi.ng that we can can our OWn· greaf ~ord of our felves, and the reA:utf ~~ants, an,d at Wi!J roo, of th~ we hve upon. . 0 t Is great Farm, the World that 19. But m.ethtnks we cannot anfwe . k~r, that we lhould live and- diet ,t_ "- to our~~~"! ps well as our MaHtm .:md the Obliga.tlons we are und gnorJ.I.t o[ our Seh·e~, and thereby of 20. H the. Worch of a Gift fets :hto 1!" <?rourSelves. of the Pany that receives it ~Hhe th e.O~hgauon, and direas the Return to value it a~d the Giver, fo~)k, at IS tgnorant of it, will be at a lafs: 2J. Here IS Maninhislgnoranceofh' filf. fiimate his Creator, becaufe he kno tm e · He knows not how to C· If we confider his Make and lovel ws not how to value his Creation .his lovely StruElure. His divers M~ ~ompofit~re; the feveral Srories 0£ pendency,: 'fhe lnthuments of Food m ers, thetr Orde.r, F~ntlion and DeTranfmutJtJons it paff'es. And how'Nhe YJbffe;:Isof.DJgeft~on, the feveral throughout the whole Body by fi .oun ment. IS earned and diffufed How the Animal Spirit is rher b rna tnn:ue and Imperceprible P,lffl es Jerity and Motion fets all Pan: itr~t~~~ed, int w~rh an unfpeakable if:x~ all,, how the .Rational Soul is feared in to ee. t emfel.v~. And Iaft of ;IS IS the Ammal in the Bod : 1 fa . th~ .Ammal, as. tt s proper Houfe, ~onfidered by us, with all th~ reft b y,~f t:Is. r~re Fabnck :~lone were but Man would have a more reverent S~nfi 1f ~t Jspfed and, C?mforred, furely nefs of God, and of that Dut h e o t .e owe~, W•fdom and Good· be acquainted wirh his ow/ S e t"!e,s to him for It, Bur if he would the Body, it"s Natute and E d oud, lths nohl~ Faculries, i[,'s Union with • 0 ' an t e Prov1dences by wh1ch the whale · Frame |