"Thus, adds the above Author, the Excellency of God is adequately magnified, and the Grandeur of his Empire made manifest; he is not glorified in one, but in numberless Suns; not in one Earth, or in one World, but in ten thousand thousand of infinite Globes."
An infinite Representation of an infinite Original, and a Spectacle befitting the Excellency and Eminence of him, that can neither be fully conceived, imagined, or comprehended.
What read we here? the Existence of a God?
Yes, and of other Beings, Man above,
Natives of Æther! Sons of higher Climes!
"If the Existence of this one World be good or convenient, it is not less good or convenient that there be infinite others like it.
"The infinite efficient Cause would be absolutely defective, without an infinite Effect; and besides, by conceiving the Infinity of the Universe and innumerable Beings, the Understanding rests satisfied, and is reconciled with the Idea of an Eternity; whereas, by asserting the contrary, it is unavoidably plunged into innumerable Difficulties, and unsolvable Inconveniencies, Paradoxes, and Absurdities."
Again, says the same Writer, "Did we but consider and comprehend all this, oh! to what much further Considerations and Comprehensions should we be carried! as we might be sure to obtain that Happiness by virtue of this Science, which in other Sciences is sought after in vain.
This Prospect vast, what is it? weigh'd aright,
'Tis Nature's System of Divinity,