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Reflections on the Works of God in Nature and Providence (Volume 1); For Every Day in the Year - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1810. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... pensate the reader for any faults he may find in it. The Author's zeal for practical religion, his manly sense, his comprehensive knowledge of the works of Nature and Art, and the pains he took to adapt his language to the apprehension of illiterate people, are advantages which are rarely found in any book of devotion, either of the past or present century. It was the esteem I always had for ScriVee's work, which first inspired me with the desire to compose one similar to it. I had a twofold design in writing Meditations on the Works of God in the Kingdom of Nature and Providence: 1. That those who had little time for study, might find a treatise, pointing out whatever was most essential to be known, relative to the objects which God daily presents to us in the widely extended Empire of Nature. For this purpose, I have chosen out of the vast mass of Natural History, the objects which daily surround us, the historical knowledge of which requires no extraordinary depth of capacity. I have endeavoured so to express myself, and to represent my subjects in such a manner, as should at once render my work intelligible and interesting to all orders of Christians, the most enlightened not excepted. In endeavouring to accomplish this end, I proposed a second, viz. To shew the reader how he may derive lesSods of wisdom and virtue from the contemplation of natural things. give it a new advantage over that spurious work which has been published in three different places, by certain rapacious booksellers. In order successfully to accomplish these designs, I found it necessary to avail myself of all the helps which the works of Naturalists could afford me: I have, therefore, made no scruple to borrow fromBuffon, Derham, Pluche, Nietjwentyt, Sulzer, Bonnet, and other writers of...
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