Excerpt from Reflections on the Works and Providence of God, Vol. 1 of 3: Throughout All Nature, for Every Day in the Year Considering this first da of the year as a re commencement of my life, i, presume, from the goodness of God, to anticipate a repetition of the great and numerous blessings I have received from my birth to the present period. What may I not hope from my heavenly Father, who, from the first. Moment of my existence, nay, even before I was born, provided for me with so much tenderness and goodness! In my parents he gave me friends, whose fostering care supported and brought me up, and whose disinterested affection protected me in the weak and helpless state of infancy. With out their kind attentions and anxious solicitude, how could I have been preserved to enjoy the be nefits I now possess? 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.