and all the inferences they make are drawn from that
volume.

I insert in this place the 19th Psalm, as paraphrased into
English verse by Addison. I recollect not the prose,
and where I write this I have not the opportunity of seeing
it:

The spacious firmament on high,
With all the blue etherial sky,
And spangled heavens, a shining frame,
Their great original proclaim.
The unwearied sun, from day to day,
Does his Creator's power display,
And publishes to every land
The work of an Almighty hand.
Soon as the evening shades prevail,
The moon takes up the wondrous tale,
And nightly to the list'ning earth
Repeats the story of her birth;
Whilst all the stars that round her burn,
And all the planets, in their turn,
Confirm the tidings as they roll,
And spread the truth from pole to pole.
What though in solemn silence all
Move round this dark terrestrial ball;
What though no real voice, nor sound,
Amidst their radiant orbs be found,
In reason's ear they all rejoice,
And utter forth a glorious voice,
Forever singing as they shine,
THE HAND THAT MADE US IS DIVINE. ¹

What more does man want to know, than that the
hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipo-
tent? Let him believe this, with the force it is impossible
to repel if he permits his reason to act, and his rule of moral
life will follow of course.

The allusions in Job have all of them the same tendency
with this Psalm; that of deducing or proving a truth that
would be otherwise unknown, from truths already known.

I recollect not enough of the passages in Job to insert

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