and that all the things we see with our eyes speak something to the mind, to instruct and improve it. When we know something of this language, then we may think ourselves able to read like men and Christians. It cannot be explained but by shewing what it is; and then it will speak for itself: But as neither children nor men can get wisdom without the help of God, we must pray to Him, that we may hear and understand; for the seeing eye, and the hearing ear, the Lord hath made, even both of them. A TABLE V. VI. THE Beasts The Eel and the Lark... .... The Fading Flower..... THE BOOK OF NATURE; OR, THE TRUE SENSE OF THINGS, EXPLAINED AND MADE EASY TO THE CAPACITIES OF CHILDREN. PART I. B 3 |