Excerpt from Chemical Essays, Vol. 1 Divines, I hope, will forgive me, if I have ftolen a few hours, not, I truf'f, from the duties of my office, but certainly from the fiudies of' my profefiion, and employed them in the cultivation of natural philofophy I could plead in my defence the example of fome of the greatef't characters, that ever adorned either this, Univerfity or the Church of England. The books of Nature and of Revelation equally elevate our conceptions, and incite our piety, they mutually illufirate each other; they have an equal claim to our regard, for they are both written by the finger of the one eternal incomprehensible Goo, TO 'whom BE glory for ever, A M a N. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.