The works of the late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq . , whichprompted our Creator to adapt exiftence to Beings, in whom it is not necef-fary ? efpecially when we confider, that he himfelf was before in the com-pleat pofleffion of exiftence and of happinefs, and in the full enjoyment ofeternity. What man can think of himfelf as called out and feparated fromnothing, of his being made a confcious, a reafonable and a happy creature, infhort, of being taken in as a fharer of exiftence and a kind of partner in eter-nity, without being fwallowed up in Wonder, in Praife, and Adoration! Itis ind
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The works of the late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq . , whichprompted our Creator to adapt exiftence to Beings, in whom it is not necef-fary ? efpecially when we confider, that he himfelf was before in the com-pleat pofleffion of exiftence and of happinefs, and in the full enjoyment ofeternity. What man can think of himfelf as called out and feparated fromnothing, of his being made a confcious, a reafonable and a happy creature, infhort, of being taken in as a fharer of exiftence and a kind of partner in eter-nity, without being fwallowed up in Wonder, in Praife, and Adoration! Itis indeed a thought too big for the mind of man, and rather to be entertain-ed in the fecrecy of devotion and in the filence of the foul, than to be expref-fed by words. The Supreme Being has not given us powers or faculties fuf-ficient to extol and magnifie fuch unutterable goodnefs. It is however fome comfort to us, that we fhall be always doing what wefhall be never able to do, and that a work which cannot be finiftied, willhowever be the work of an eternity.. Friday, N°5i>*- Tke SPECTATOR. , o* N° j$u. Friday, September 10. -~Studinm fine droite vena. , Hor. I Look upon the Play-houfe as a world within it felf. They have latelyfurnilhed the middle region of it with a new fett of meteors, in order togive the Sublime to many modern Tragedies. I was there laft winter atthe fii-ft rehearfal of the new thunder, which is much more deep and fono-rous than any hitherto made ufe of. They have a Salmoneus behind the fcenes, who plays it off with great fuccefs. Their lightnings are made to flaih morebriskly than heretofore; their clouds are alio better furbelowcd, and morevoluminous; not to mention a violent ftorm locked up in a great cheft thatis defigned for the Tempeji. They are alfo provided with above a dozenmowers of fnow, which, as I am informed, are the Plays of many unfuccefs-ful Poets artificially cut and Ihreaded for that ufe. Mr. Rimers Edgar is tofall in fnow at the next act