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Another Hoſt of Creatures now appears,
Each Marks of Power and divine Wiſdom bears:
Here we might find a Field wherein to treat,
Large like that Field, affords thoſe Creatures Meat,
Whoſe vaſt and huge Dimenſions to deſcry,
Doth all the Skill of Geographers try:
Philoſophers, for all the Pains they take.
And Searches into natural Things they make.
Into this Deep howe'er they plode, yet ſtill
They meet with Things that do ſurmount their Skill.
What Reaſon by them e'er can be aſſign'd.
Why Creatures differ ſo much in their Kind?
What various Sizes is there them among.
Some weak and feeble, others huge and ſtrong,
Who can for this aſſign another Cauſe?
But ſo the Will of their Creator was.
The Works of God are all ſo great and good,
To be admir'd, not fully underſtood:
As all God's Works, even ſo this ſixth Day's, can
Be but admir'd, not fathomed by Man.
The divine Word of Pow'r, at whoſe great Call
Nothing produced Matter, whereof all
Things they were made that's found in any where
Of Earth or Waters, or the open Air,
Call'd to the Earth, that now it forth ſhould bring
All Kind of Beaſts and every creeping Thing;
The
