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    disportge the sinner ' s score , and thus acquired the first claim to his grateful adoration . I may be gravely told by some soi ^ disant evangelical Christian that the worship of the God-Man , of the As .

    sembly ' s Catechism ^ does not pre - clude thfe worship of the One God , eeBttht Father , of the New Te $ - tamehti Yet the scriptures direct me td one being alone ori whom ' to depend < as my life , mif strength , rm joy ^ iny all . -

    I will now invite your readers , MrVEdiidr , to qutt the rough and thorny roadof polemic theoiogy and to accompany this author , who was no partial scholar , into oiieof the paths of science and even tb wan . der into a delightful region of

    taste . ' Sir H . Wottoh has probably given thfe first'description in our language V 6 f that entertaining ; and n 6 w camrriorf ^ apparatus , the Camera Obsbura , though I have hot found this circumstance munitioned

    in any dictionary of science . The invention is ascribed to BtiptistV Porta * who died in' \ $ l §~ but whosevMajria Ndturalis , Where' it is described , was < not publishetf till abriut 1 59 C Wottoh 16 ' writing to Lord Bacon , probabfy ^ fldni Venjce , wh&re he Was em'tfassa ' cMr ,. TH * - letter ^ Ms no date but isaW

    answer to one from the (^ hafr ^ elTirry dated Oct . ft » i 162 O , > v hidh ^ Vp ± pears to hHve a [ cctfm panied arpVrf- ' ' sent of his Hfotiim O ^ gatfun }^ Of * that work Wtftion sa ^ *« %%$ && learned thtjs rhiich , byJt aj re ^ dy , thatt ^ we are extremely mistaken ' in the computation of antiquity , by

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    fh this hymn , the worship of the Fath&rof 01 ercies , tlie God and Father qf ^ our Lord Jesus Christ is presently dTscarded for the worship of another Being-who could quench the ire of the former and

    searching it backwards , because indeed the first times were the young * est , especially in points 'oF natural discovery and experience V p « 2 $ 9 » He adds , " I owe your lord ^ ip even by promise ( which yoli v gire

    pleased to remember , thereby doubly binding me , ) the commerce ofphilosophical experiments , which surely oi all others is the moht ingenuous traffic . Then fore , for a beginning , let me tell your

    lordship of a pretty thing which 1 saw coming down the Danube , though more remarkable for the applica - tion than for the theory * I lay anight at Lintz , the metropolis of the higher Austria . —There I found Kepler , a man famous in the sciences , as yotir lordship knows ,

    to whom I purpose to convey fr 6 ih irehce one ' of-y 6 urb 6 ofcs . —In this ! man ' s study , I w ^ is m uch taken , with the drAugfit ^ of ^ afandskip on a piece ' of f ikpe ^^^ thougHt masterly ilBrjeJ V& ^ itre ' of inquiring ^ the authbr ^ he "bewrayed ^ with $ smile , if was hnttielf , addfng he . | bald dene it nthi idriqu ^ n ^ icitdt ^^ seSianquam mdiiikniat ^ cus . T&iV 1 h

    set me on fire * Ai ' fast ' he ' told ' me how . He hath d li ' ttte bT ^ tck terit (( of whatstiiff is'ifo'i muchlm . teritof what srfi / ff i-rribt much ,

    importing ) which I lie / ennv sudqeoly set up where 'h ' e ' wH ^ in a fieioV ' and it is convertible ( like a . Wind- ^ ¦ niiU ) td all quarters at pleasure ^ . , ca " pa ! ble of not' mych ttiore than one man , as I conceive , apd

    perhilns at fro great'Vase , exactly cYtsik and dark , save at one hcile , ' abtftft &n inch and W . 'fcfilf in thrf

    dimmer , tb which % e ap ^ l i ^ a / lottg foerspefctrve tnirik , wiin a ^ pn . Ve # BiH ? fitivdWo "fiie" safa ho l ^ , * antf 'tfie cStidM'Men put at th £ otfier f ^ nd ; w ^ h ex tend 6 Vh to } al 76 ut th ^ Maie of ^ tbik ejected teriC thto ' ugh wfe 1 ch the Visible ml' ' diations of all the objects without .

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    The Book . Worm . No . I . 15 *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1812, page 155, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1746/page/19/