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never able to discern above 7; and in Orion ,which has but 80 Stars in the British Ca-talogue (and some of them Telescopical)there have been numbered 2000 Stars.m idea of Those who think all these glorioustheUni- Bodies were created to no other Purpose,than to give us a little dim Light, must enter-tain a very stender Idea of the Divine Wis-dom j for we receive more Light from theMoon itself, than from all the Stars puttogether. And since the Planets are subjedt to the same Laws of Motion with outEarth , and some of them not only equal,but vastly exceed it in Magnitude, it is notunreasonable to suppose, that they are allhabitable Worlds. And since the FixdStars are no ways behind our Sun, eitherin Bigness or Lustre; is it not probable,that each of them have a System of Plane-tary Worlds turning round them, as we dflround our Sun ? And if we ascend as] far asthe smallest Star we can see, shall we notthen discover innumerable more of theseglorious Bodies, which now are altogetherinvisible to us ? And so ad infinitum, throthe boundless Space of the Universe. Whata magnificent Idea must this raise in us otthe Divine Being! who is every where,and at all Times present, displaying his Di-vine Power,Wisdom and Goodness, amongstall his Creatures!

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