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mighty, to create, to adapt, to combine, and to uphold, can have any tendency to make us call in question his power, or his purpose, to interpose, to illuminate, and to controul, at his pleasure. And who can seriously contemplate the numberless operations of the principle of life, all infallibly producing their several and peculiar results, in all the different tribes of the animal and vegetable worlds-who can behold the powers with which the human body is endowed, to repair its injuries, and to relieve its diseases, as far as the destinies of our nature will permit—who can survey the demonstrations of these facts which are contained in that match-