is furnished at the head with a hard black forceps, which resembles that of the Apulian araneus: the colour of its oval body is a bluish black, and has a tranfverfe line and two spots hollowed in it: its eight legs are very long, the joints large, and the little bones of the feet have different articulations : it was armed with briftles like a boar, and had claws very black, not unlike an eagle: it had eight eyes, and fix of them were dif pofed in form of a half moon on the forehead; the other two were on the crown of the head; one to the left, the other to the right this difpofition affords light to the whole body, and as thefe eyes are well furnifhed with cryftalline humours, they are fharp-fighted beyond all creatures, and fo nimbly hunt down flies: the mouth was full of teeth, and they looked like short thick hairs.

In oppofition to this amphibious creature, which walks on the mud at the bottom of standing waters, as well as on the banks, the. filvery-green bodied fpider was put into the box, which is one of the clafs that lives in the woods, where it fquats down on the branches of trees, and throws four of its legs forward, and four backward, extending them ftraight along the bough; but the great water aranea, with his terrible weapon, the black forceps, in a minute destroyed Z3

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it, and we took the dead body out, to put in its place the red and yellow fpider, which is a larger and ftronger kind: this made a battle for two minutes, and hurt his foe: but he could not ftand it longer: he expired at the victor's feet.

These things were a fine entertainment to works of me, as I had not before seen a solar, catoptric, feen in the or improved double-reflecting microscope. I had now a nearer view of the fkilful works of the fupreme Artificer. With admiration I beheld the magnified objects the wonderful arrangement of the inteftines of a flea-the motion and ebullition of the blood of a louse their forms- the various fpiders, fo aftonishingly framed the gnat, that elephant in fo fmall a miniature- the amazing form of the ant- the aftonishing claws and beautiful wings of a fly; the bones, nerves, arteries, veins, and moving blood in this very minute animal-the wonderful bee, its claws, its colours, and diftinct rows of teeth, with which it fips the flowers, and carries the honey home in its ftomach, but brings the wax externally on its thighs and a thousand other things which manifeft a Creator. In every object I viewed in the optical inftruments, my eyes beheld one wife Being and fupreme cause of all things. Every infect, herb, and spire of grafs, declare eternal power and godhead.

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Not only the fpeech and language of the heavens, but of all the works and parts of nature is gone out into all the earth, and to the ends of the world; loudly proclaiming, that thou, O God, art Lord alone: Thou haft made heaven, the heaven of hea→ vens, and all their hofts; the earth, and all things that are therein; therefore be thou our Lord God for ever and ever.

67. The library belonging to these gen- The libra tlemen is a very fine one, and contains many bra..

thousand volumes; but is much more valuable for the intrinfic merit, than the number of the books and as to antient manufcripts, there is a large ftore of great value: they had likewise many other curious monuments of antiquity; ftatues, paintings, medals, and coins, filver, gold, and brafs. To defcribe thofe fine things would require a volume. Among the books, I faw the editions of the old authors, by the famous printers of the fifteenth and fixteenth centuries; editions greatly prized and fought after by most of the learned; but thefe gentlemen did not value them fo much as the editions of the clafficks, that have been published within this last century; efpecially the quarto editions done in Holland. They fhewed me many errors in the Greek authors by the Stephens and as to Plantin, exclufive of his negligence, in feveral places, his Italic chaZ 4

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racter they thought far inferior to the Roman, in refpect of beauty. All this was true: and it is moft certain, that the beft corrected books are the best editions of the claffics. They are the beft helps for our understanding them. There is no reafon then for laying out fo much money for the old editions, when in reality the modern ones are better.

68. One of the books in this library, of the book which I chanced to take into my hand was dicie con- the famous Vindicia contra Tyrannos, which tra Tyrancame out in Latin and French in 1579, under the name of Stephanus Junius Brutus, and is a defence of liberty against tyrants. —This treatise proves, in the first place, that fubjects are not bound to obey princes, if they command that which is against the law of God; as the worship of a confecrated wafer, and the theology of St. Athanafius, maria nolatry, the demonolatry, and all the diabolism of popery ;-2dly, That it is lawful to refift a prince, who, like James the Second, endeavours to ruin the true church, and make the Juperflition of Rome the religion of the land;-3dly, That it is lawful to refift a prince, when he oppreffes and strives to ruin a flate; as when Charles the First would exercife a power contrary to the intereft of his people, contrary likewife to that of the

proteftant religion (29.); and when James the Second began his tyranny, by difpenfing with the penal ftatute of 25 Car, 2. in the

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(29.) Many inftances can be produced of Charles the First exerting a power contrary to the intereft of the proteftant religion; and a capital one is, this king's exprefs and strict orders, figned with his own hand, to captain John Pennington, to deliver (and he did, in obedience thereto, deliver) a fquadron of the naval forces of England, confifting of eight men of war, into the hands and abfolute power of the French king; and Charles directed, that in cafe of disobedience in the English captains to that order, Pennington was to fink them. These naval forces enabled the Gaulish king to break and fupprefs the power of the Rochelle proteftants: this was an unjuftifiable ftep indeed in Charles's reign and if to this we add a thousand acts of this faid fovereign Lord, that were the caufe of all the difagreements, differences and contentions between his majefty and his people, that happened in his reign, and the fources of public calamity, it is certainly moft amazing, to fee the memory of this prince treated equally, if not fuperior to the most celebrated martyrs! torrents of tears have I feen pour from the eyes of our mourning theologers on the 30th of January. I remember one time, when Dr. Warren preached the commemoration fermon at St. Margaret's Weftminster, that he wept and fobbed fo bitterly and calamitoufly, that he could hardly get out the following concluding words of his fine difcourfethe Roy--- Royal Ma--- Martyr -- the--the holy Martyr bleed Martyr.

the---the Nor can I forget the learned author of the Life of David. This gentleman preached before the late Duke of Devonshire in Chrift-Church, Monday, January 20, 1737, on thefe words-Take away the dross from

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