CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. A MEDITATION upon New-Year's Day Winter has blessings which are often disregarded Of the Shortness and Uncertainty of Life Cumbustion generally diffused throughout Nature Equal Distribution of the Seasons Power of God displayed in the minutest Objects The Effects of Winter gradually depart Means which contribute to fertilise the Earth Of the Advantages derived from the Sea Beneficial Influence of the Sun upon the Creation Relations that all Creatures have for each other Of the constituent Parts of Water Diversity of Traits in the Human Countenance REFLECTIONS UPON THE WORKS OF GOD, AS DISPLAYED IN NATURE. LET JANUARY I. A Meditation upon New-Year's Day. ET us consider this day as the first of our lives, and venture to anticipate, from the goodness of God, a repetition of those benefits which we have received from our first entrance into the world, to the present period of our existence. What blessings may we not hope from that Being, which has ever watched over us with the tender solicitude of a father; which, at the hour of our birth, presented us, in our parents, with friends that have supplied all our wants, and supported us through the helpless and unprotected state of infancy? Without their fostering care, how could we have preserved our health, and all the comforts which we now enjoy? Were it possible for us at that time to have reflected upon our destined fate, we should doubt. less have looked forward with delight to the pleasures of our sublunary existence; now that we are capable of such reflections, it is pleasing to indulge the sensa tions our present happiness inspires, and our imagination dwells with rapture upon the sweet hopes of future felicity. VOL. 1. B |