of her navies? Remove the fir and the kindred Larch; and how would she supply the hulls with masts? Again, were iron absent, labour, and art, and science would be paralysed by the total want of tools and implements; and the business of the manufactory, and the enterprises of commer would be at an end. In all these instances, and in others which might be adduced, the supply granted to man by his Creator is not a mer prison allowance, scantily sustaining barely meeting the demands of ordinary necesl ties. Neither is it the luxuriant profusion natu ral, if so we may presume to speak, to the hand of perfect yet unoffended beneficence. It hi supply bearing the character of a grant to sh ners from a God of mercy and of wisdom: supply by mercy made so ample, as not only to relieve wants, but to superadd moderate.com forts and enjoyments; by wisdom so limited, as to render man sed

CHAP. VII.

CIRCUMSTANCER CONNWOERD WITH THE STRUCTURE AND THE NATURE OF THE HUMAN PHAMR

Foner for a few moments the special condi tion of man and imagine yourself listening to information conveyed to you, in what mode or by what agency is immaterial, concerning the inhabitants of a planet in the unseen regions of prices Suppose yourself to be told, that they were created holy; that they speedily fell from obedience that God, amidst his just indigna tion against the offending mee, had been pleased to think upon mercy and that their bodily con Gormation, while apparently it would not be mited to the circumstances of their present abode, had they remained innocent, bears the stamp of