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since there could have been no object for the display
of Divine wisdom and goodness, to have completed
in an immense Creation of mere senseless beings, void
of intelligence and incapable of enjoyment.

Furthermore if we reason
from the analogy of God's providence, in replenish-
ing this globe with rational agents, it would follow,
that he has uniformly displayed his providence
and goodness throughout his unlimited Creation.

It is too romantic a notion to
premise, that God has Created Worlds to our con-
ception unnumerable, placed or moving in har-
monious order and perfect natual decorum,
abstractedly considered from intelligent beings,
to whom only they could (be) servisable. It could not
have been a matter of mere curiocity in God, to
have made an essay of skill in the Creation and
harmonizing a sensless universe, such like exer-
tions was were not necessary for the improvement of infi-
nite perfection since it can could receive no enlarement:
for that very reason that it is was infinite. And as such a
creation and harmony of mere natural things, destitute
of sensibilitiy and incapable of enjoyment, could not be
profitable or instructive to God, it could not be advan-
tageous to itself, or display any wisdom, goodness or
providence in God, for want of a capacity of reflection
and consciousness, we may therefore with a well
grounded judgement determine, that a mere Stupid cre-
ation has never taken place. And since creation has

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