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Some Thoughts Concerning Religion, Natural and Revealed. With a Letter to a Bishop Concerning Some Important Discoveries in Philosophy and
Some Thoughts Concerning Religion Natural and Revealed With a Letter to a Bishop Concerning Some Important Discoveries in Philosophy and Author:Duncan Forbes Title: Some Thoughts Concerning Religion, Natural and Revealed. With a Letter to a Bishop Concerning Some Important Discoveries in Philosophy and Theology. [by D. Forbes] Corrected General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1743 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and ther... more »e may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SOME THOUGHTS CONCERNING RELIGION, IT is i m pcinble to view the immenfity, the variety, the harmony, and the beauty of the Univerfe, without concluding it to be the workmanfhip of a Being infinitely powerful, wife, and good. It is impoffible to examine the ftrudture of the moft inconfiderable plant or animal, without being furpris'd with fuch admirable contrivance, as pronounces the author infinitely intelligent, and excludes allfufpicion that it ow'd its origin to blind chance. The vegetable world is adjufted with fuch amazing Jkill, that each plant, perfect in its own kind, is fupport- ed, and propagated, mechanically, by the unerring attion of the fun, the air, and the earth where it grows: its feeds, by that mechanifm, produce new plants of the fame kind ; and the herb, that perifhes with the feafon, clothes the fields with the fame livery againft the next. Thatbrute matter, inert, and infenfible, mould be framed fo as to perform fuch wonders, fhews wifdom, and power, far beyond the comprehenfion of the moft perfect man. The action of the material powers in this fyflem upon the organized body of a plant, preferves, and propagates it: its roots fhoot out into the foil where it grows; there it finds abundant aliment for perfecting its trunk, and preparing its feeds; and thofe feeds are dropped where they meet the like encouragement. But it is not fo with animals : the moft perfeci of the kind, left to the direr ct...« less