If it not akes thy Soul, and racks thy Brain,
Conceive each Star Thou seest another Sun,
In Bulk, and Form, and Substance like thine own.
Almighty Wisdom nothing makes in vain:
The smallest Fly, the meanest Weed we find,
In its Creation had some Use assign'd,
Essential to its Being, still the same,
Co-eval, co-existent with its Frame.
14th, And God said, let there be Lights in the Firmament of the Heavens, to divide the Day from the Night, and let them be for Signs, and for Seasons, and for Days and for Years; which every body must acknowledge can be meant of nothing else but the Sun and Moon, since they alone are the Causes of these Divisions; so that, God made the Stars also, serves indeed to remind Us of his being the Creator of all Things, but can never imply, that the whole Universe was created, or disposed in its present Order at that same Time.
That there are frequent Changes, and perhaps new Creations amongst the Celestial Bodies, is more than probable, from the Disappearing of several Stars, and the new Appearance of others, which have been observed in different Parts of the Heaven, almost in every Age; and if we may have leave to guess, were old Worlds destroyed in some Places, and new Ones created in others.
Since then this Orb, (with all the Planets of our System) was created much later than many of the other Heavenly Bodies, we have no Reason to believe the rest shall partake of all the Revolutions it must undergo. Whatever shall become of it, (for that it must change its present Appearance, the very Nature of Things does clearly evince) the rest will still roll on in their appointed Courses, till the same God, in his allotted Time, shall make them also undergo Changes appointed for them.
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