a r t s mind fufficient to enable them to invent fciences which require-
AND accurate obfervations, and a remarkably ftrong fagacity; why may
SCIENCES
we not think them equally capable o f being the inventors
o f the whole cyclus o f their knowledge.
Math ingenio ejie azli interpretes, rerumque natum capaces
argument! repertores., quo deos hominefque vici/iis..
Plin. lib ii. c . i z .
S E C T .
S E C T I O N . IX.
Religion, Mythology, Cofmogony, Worfhip, Origin o f
Mankind, Future State, Rites genethliac, Nuptial,
Sepulchral.
F rAGJLIS & LAEORIOS A MORTAHTAS IN PARTES ISTA ( NUMJIfA ) DIGESSIT,
IN FIRM I TATIS SU.® 1MMEMOR, UT PORTIONIBUS QUISQJJE COLERET, QUO MAXI ME
INDIGERET. ITAQUE NOMINA ALIA ALUS GENTIBUS, & NUMINA IN IISDEM
1NN-UMERABILIA REPERIMUS.
Plin. Hiff. Nat-, lib. ii. c. yif.
/ | ' H E Contemplation o f the infinite power and wifdom o f
"*■ the creator and governor o f the world, the fountain of
all good, the witnefs to, and judge o f all our adtions j and on
the other hand the fenfe o f our own weaknels and wants, together
with the impoflibility o f obviating or avoiding many great and
remarkable incidents o f our lives, imprefs our minds with awe
and refeed:, with a confidence in, and love towards this friendly
diftributor o f mercies. I f again we examine Our faculties both
o f body and mind, the enjoyments o f which we are capable,
efpecially o f a rational fort, and the third after everlaiting life and
happinefs.
RELIGION.