Virtue grows there ——
A learned Author on the Attributes, recommending these Studies as a reasonable and moral Service, says, "Sure, it is most becoming such imperfect Creatures as we are, to contemplate the Works of God with this Design, that we may discern the Manifestations of Wisdom in them; and thereby excite in ourselves those devout Affections, and that superlative Respect, which is the very Essence of Praise."
Who turns his Eye, on Nature's Midnight Face,
But must enquire —— what Hand behind the Scene,
What Arm Almighty, put these wheeling Globes
In Motion, and wound up the vast Machine?
The enchanting Idea Milton had of the Subjects of Astronomy whose truly sublime Way of thinking and writing perhaps was never so nearly equalled, or attempted before this Reverend Author's Night-Thoughts, appear'd is finely shewn in the Eighth Book of his Paradise Lost, where he makes his Adam, so earnestly attentive to the Angel Gabriel, as to ceasing to relate the Mysteries of Creation.
The Angel ended, and his Adam's Ear
So charming left his Voice, that he awhile
Thought him still speaking; still stood fix'd to hear.