of her navies? Remove the fir and the kindred larch; and how would she supply the hulls with masts? Again, were iron absent, labour, and art, and science would be paralysed by the total want of tools and implements; and the business of the manufactory, and the enterprises of commerce would be at an end. In all these instances, and in others which might be adduced, the supply granted to man by his Creator is not a mere prison allowance, scantily sustaining life, and barely meeting the demands of ordinary necessi ties. Neither is it the luxuriant profusion natu ral, if so we may presume to speak, to the hand W of perfect yet unoffended beneficence. It is supply bearing the character of a grant to sin ners from a God of mercy and of wisdom supply by mercy made so ample, an not onl relieve want

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