MHarvey's Meditations &co. Vol. II. To face the Title SIC GRATE DEI F.Hayman del .I.Wall M.D.invi L.Cook Sculp ༡ When I consider thy Heavens, the Work of thy Fingers: the Moon and the Stars which thou hast ordained. Lord what is Man that thou art mindful of him, and the Son of Man that thou visites him. Pfalm VIII. v. 3&4. Printed for John Rivington and Partners. BY JAMES HERVEY, A. M. A NEW EDITI O N. Printed from a COPY corrected by the AUTHOR. V O L. II. LONDON, Printed by John Rivington, jun. FOR JOHN, FRANCIS, AND CHARLES RIVINGTON, MDCCLXXIX, The FRONTIS PIECE Exhibits a View of the nocturnal Heavens.On the Top of an OBSERVATORY, two Perfons examine the celeftial Bodies with their Telescopes: Inftruments, which gave Rife to the most important Improvements in the Science of Aftronomy. An aged Philofopher is represented, inftructing his Pupils. He defcribes, with his Compaffes, the Order and Courses of the Planets; according to the Newtonian Hypothefis, intimated by a Book bearing that great Author's Name,-The whole Tenour of the Lecture, in Concert with the whole Structure and Economy of the Skies, ENARRANT GLORIAM DEI, profeffedly declare the Glory of GOD.-Behind the Philofopher stands one of his Scholars, with an Air of close Attention, computing on his Fingers the Distances, the Magnitudes, the Velocities of the planetary Orbs. Another at his Right-hand, attending to the Description of the ftupendous System, is ftruck with Surprize, and impressed with |