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CHILDREN'S BOOK
COLLECTION

LIBRARY OF THE

UNWERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

LOS ANGELES

T II E

MOSAIC CREATION:

O R,

Divine WISDOM

DISPLAYED

In the WORKS of tlie

JFtrfi

Attempted to enlarge CHILDREN'S Ideas, and
give them an early Senfe of thofe infinite
Obligations which they Le under to the Great
AUTHOR of their Beings.

PROSE and V E R S E,

WITH

OCCASIONAL, REMARKS.

Embcllifhed with Variety of Coffer -Plates,
neatly engraved.

Nature is nothing but the Art cf God ; a hrirbt
Diffiay of that Divine Wifdom, ivhicb demands
our Eternal Iribute of Wonder and Worfoip.

J. Watts,' D. D.

LONDON,

Printed for J. Niivbrry, at the PiMe and Sntt t
in St. Paul's Church-Yard. Price 6d. bound.

P REFACE.

HE f r ft Part r thi3

little Book is intended
to give Children an
id ea O f t } ie wonderful
Works of the Creation, and to
lead their Minds to a Contem-
plation of the Power and Good-
nefs of the Almighty.

For the Introduction to the
fecond Part, we are obliged to
the late celebrated Mr. Kollin,
whofe Works are too well known,
and too much admired, to need
any Recommendation,

A 2 The,

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The Remainder, which con-
tains a Defcription of Birds *
Beafts^ Fifh and Infeffs^ is abridged
from the Writings of the bed
Naturalifts, Ancient and Mo-
dern ; the Cuts are drawn and
engraved in a Manner that we
hope will pleafe , and the whole
fo conducted as to enlarge the
Minds of Children, and give
them an early Senfe of the in-
finite Obligations they lie under
to GOD, the great AUTHOR, and
PRESERVER of all Things.

A PASTORAL

A

PASTORAL DIALOGUB

BETWEEN

HENRT and LUCT,

ON THE

Beauties of Nature.

By WAY of

INTRODUCTION.

Written by the late celebrated

Mrs. ELIZABETH RQWE.

H E N R T.

3*1 _gr UCT, while refting in this verdant
L* i* ftade,

L (\ % Pow>r diviire thus elegantly
^ , ^ made,

^^f Say, canft thou envy Pomp aoi

regal Rooms,

Gay with the Luxury of Perjian Looms,
Or painted Roofs, whofe Beauty would entice
The Thoughts thro' all the fabled Toys of Vice?
A 3 Fabtei

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Fabled indeed ! true Joys it cannot boaft,
Since Pleafure flies, when Innocence is loft j
Remorfe, Defpair, and ev'ry cruel Gueft,
Become the Inmates of the guilty Breaft.

L u c r.

How fpotlefs, Henry, is thy well-turn'd Mind,
Averfe to 111, to follow Good inclin'd :
"With Thee converfing, ev'ry Day I learn
New Charms in facred Virtue to difcern ;
And emulous of Thee, with Joy purfue
That Goodnels I admire, and love in You,

H E N R T.

Thou need'ft not learn of Me, in Nature's Book
Thou may'ft on thy Creator's Wifdom look :
And as the Planets run their conftant Race,
His glorious Footfteps in their Order trace :
He bids the Sun in all its Beauty rife,
To blefs our Soil, and gild the vaulted Skies ;
And by the Ward of his Almigbty Ponu'r
Ordains the Moon to clear the Midnight Hour ;
"While fparkling Stars in folemn Order wait
Upon her filent Courfe, to grace her State.

,. L u C T-

Nor in the Skies alone his Pow'r is feen,
We view it in the Grove, and ftow'ry Green,
To imitate whofe Charms all Art is faint j
The Role's glowing Biaia what Hand can paint >

Or

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Or equal the pale Lilly's fnowy Hue,
Or emulate the Corn-flow'rs glofly Blue ?
H E N R r.

Sure, Lucy, We, like the firft Pair, are Weft
While herefecure, with Innocence and Reft,
Our happy Hours on downy Pinions fly ;
When thus aflifted by Faith's ftedfaft Eye,
Upon our Maker's Works we humbly gaze,
And for their Goodnefs render him the Praif-.
Thus in the Patriarchs Days, \hejmuijb Swains
Who fed their Flocks on Mamre' fruitful Plains,
Wcrfliipp'd Jehovah, in the Wood and Field,
And prais'd his Name for all theFruit they yield 5
Jmplor'd his Mercy to direft their Ways,
To guard their Nights, and fandlify their Days.

But fee, the Evening o'er the dewy Lawn
Already has her fable Curtain drawn j
Homeward we'll go, and as we flowly walk,
Beguile the tedious Way with further Talk.

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THE

THE

MOSAIC CREATION,

I N THE

LANGUAGE

OF THE

SACRED SCRIPTURES.

THE

INTRODUCTION.

CN. Chap. i. Verfe i.

I. TN the Beginning GOD created
jl the Heaven and the Earth.
II. And the Earth was without
Form, and void, and Darknefs was
upon the Face of the Deep : And
the Spirit of GOD was upon the
Face of the Waters.

REMARKS.

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REMARKS.

1 . That God created the Univerfe
out of nothing by the Word of his
Power, is evident from Reafon, as well
as Revelation.

2. By the Word Heaven, the He-
brews underitood three feveral Heavens-,
namely, the Firmament or aerial Hea-
ven, the Harry Heaven, and die fupreme
or higheft Heaven, called in Scripture,
the fjtavtn of Heavens.

3. By the Earth being faid to be
without Form, &c. is meant, that at
its nrft Creation, it was only a rude,
unpolifhed Mafs of Matter, which God
Almighty in x Days difpofed into that
glorious and beautiful Form in which
it now appears.

4. And laftly, by the Term Spirit,
moving upon the Face of the Waters,
is meant, the Wind of God, or the
Energy of the Divine Power.

A SHORT

A SHORT

Poetical Paraphrafe

Of the preceding

INTRODUCTION.

IN the Dark backward of fix thoufand Years,
(So Mofes writes, and all our Cbrijiian Seers J
The World, a rude, unfafliion'd Embryo lay,
Eternal Night, without one Glympfe of Day ;
Earth, Seas and Heav'n in one blind Chaos thrown,
And Years and Months, and Days were Names

unknown,

Till Ga^mark'd out the wide, unbounded Space,
And ftamp'd Creation on the formlefs Mafs :
Wide o'er the Void his genial Wings he fpread,
And Entity uprear'd its Infant Head.
Prone to her Center funk the Earth below,
And o'er her Face the riling Waters flow.

THE