Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These and other suchlike considerations, always have, and always will prevail with mankind, to believe that there is a Being who made all things, who has all things in his power, and who is therefore to be feared.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

The best way to understanding is a few good examples.

I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties.

I understood. I have understood. I do understand.

He that in ye mine of knowledge deepest diggeth, hath, like every other miner, ye least breathing time, and must sometimes at least come to terr. alt. for air.

Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.