wherein all the reason and philosophy of atheism is confuted, and

432C\e3.nthcs his devour Book I'llckly and privately praife Godj blefs him, and return thanks to him ? Oiightnot they, who dig, plow, and eat, continually fing fuch a hymn to God as this %Great is that God, who gave us thefe organs to cultivate the earth withal ; greatis that God, who gave us hands, &c. who enabled us to grow iindifcernihly, tobreathe in our Jleep. But the great eft and divinft hymn of all is this, to praifeGod for the faculty of underftanding all thefe things. What then if for thenwft part men be blinded, ought there not to be feme one,, who fkculd performthis office, and fing a hymn to God for all ? If I were a nightingale, I wouldpeiformthe office of a 7iightingale ; or a fivan, that of a fwan : but now beinga reafonable creature^. I ought to celebrate and fing aloud the praifes ofGod, that is, of the fupreme Deity.Laftly, the fame is evident from their invoking the fupreme God asfuch, addrefling their devotions to him alone without the conjundion of any1.2. c. 18. other gods; and particularly imploring his adlftance againft the affuilts of[Apud ^'"'teniptations, called by them phancics. To this purpofe is that of Epii^etus.,lv.imv STTixfliA? (3o>;6ou >^ Trx^xf-xTW, w; tbV Aio^y-vw; ev ^niy.'Jui oi TrAfcvrtf, Thisis a great confli^ or contention, a divine enterprize ; it is for liberty and fora kingdom. Now remember the fupreme God ; call upon him as thy helper andaffiftant, as the mariners do upon Caftor and Pollux in a tcmpeft. He commendsalfo this form of devotional addrefs, or divine ejaculation, which waspart of Cleanthes his litany, to be ufed frequently upon occafion ', "Aya S-nixs, 2 Zeu, y^ o-u ri Trcirpujj.iri oVoi wo6' ("V"") "1"' ^iOima'yy.ijl^, wj- i^^oixai yt aoav