A confidential communication of the enemy of human diseases : and the afflicted applying to him, to whom only is intended this supplementary reflection concerning the cause of human prevalent miseries ... / By Sylvan, enemy to human diseases.

  • Sylvan, pseud.
Date:
1814
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    :em, ami the one of other animals creation. And to remain in the same opinion and have it corroborated, one has to cast the eyes, as for as they can reach, to see the whole world displaying to this naked sense of rational be- ings, the wonderful, numerous phenomena, informing the intelligent spectator of the unbounded power of their own Maker and first.mover of all tilings. And for the pur- pose of making use of their intellectual faculties, to take survey of the perceptible, material objects, ostensibly of- fered to their discerning eyes, enabling them to contem- plate those infinite and numberless luminous bodies, or the firmamental, orbicular population, so admirably dis- persed in the resplendent, &. magnificent ethereal expanse^ and the respective motion of those sparkling stupendous, suspended inhabitants. Hence result of the pious con- templation can any thinking beings not be converted, of the Atheists monstrous doctrine, and not be persuaded that those incomprehensible wonders are the absolute ef- fect of an unexplainable, powerful, and knowing cause, and that what is left to human understanding, to infer on the matter, is, that the splendid bright space, is repleted with solid and innumerable mass, or terrestrial and material vegetative orbs, which symmetry and sub- lime composure demonstrate that their surface must be the particular habitation of human, rational animals. And if such is the reflection, that beings endued with intellec- tual and cogitating faculties, can make with regard to the starry, firmamental economy, that every thing indicates, that each of those dazzling illuminated bodies are the ab- solute residence of human living animals. By the impor- tance of the work, the cogitators have solid argumen ts to? infer that the species, for which so much is done, must be replenished with exquisite perfection, corresponding to. the consequence of the being and the supreme excellen- cy of the omnieicnt, wise and good Author of all things. This solution being the last one, that have made the god- lv and the impressed, with sentiments of veneration for the worshipful wisdom of the supreme omnific Creator of the world. Thence beholding the conspicuous state of va- rious deformities, multiplied infirmities, manifold raab>