. An essay upon literature: or, An enquiry into the antiquity and original of letters; proving that the two tables, written by the finger of God in Mount Sinai, was the first writing in the world, and that all other alphabets derive from the Hebrew ; with a short view of the methods made use of by the antients to supply the want of letters before, and improve the use of them, after they were known . orts, like thy Soul, Divine. Deaths fable Gloom fhall neer thy Life invade, Nor Peace, nor Innocence, nor Glory fade. N O T E on E m b l e m VI. (a) King of Nature — That the inferior Parts of Natu
. An essay upon literature: or, An enquiry into the antiquity and original of letters; proving that the two tables, written by the finger of God in Mount Sinai, was the first writing in the world, and that all other alphabets derive from the Hebrew ; with a short view of the methods made use of by the antients to supply the want of letters before, and improve the use of them, after they were known . orts, like thy Soul, Divine. Deaths fable Gloom fhall neer thy Life invade, Nor Peace, nor Innocence, nor Glory fade. N O T E on E m b l e m VI. (a) King of Nature — That the inferior Parts of Nature werecreated for the Service and Ufe of Man, and he fcr the Contempla-tion and Enjoyment of God, is what both Reafon owns, andRevelation confirms; on which Account Tul/y de Nat. D. calls theWorld the common Habitation of God and Man, who <vcas createdto contemplate and imitate the Divine Being. So Nemefius de fays, All Things tvere created for man, and Man for Immor-tality. And La&entius gives this Reafon for fuch Order of Provi-dence, that Man might confefs and adore his Creator i which feemsthe peculiar Munus of a Rational Being. And indeed the wholeVoice of Antiquity univerially acknowledges that the Scrvereigunder God and Dominion of Nature was one cr niequent Erfeft ofMans being created after the Image of God. See Theod. &c. KB Embum MORAL
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