STUDY III. 



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STUDY THIRD. 



OBJECTIONS AGAINST PROVIDENCE. 



^^ npHERE is no God,'* fay thefe felf-con- 

 JL ftituted fages. . " From the work form 

 *' your judgment of the workman "*. Obferve, 

 ** firft of all, this Globe of ours, fo deftitute 

 " of proportion and fymmetry. Here it is de- 

 ** luged by vaft feas ; there it is parched with 

 ** thirft, and prefents only wildernefTes of barren 

 " fand. A centrifugal force, occafioned by it's 

 *' diurnal rotation, has heaved out it's Equator 

 *' into enormous mountains, while it flattened 

 " the Poles : for the Globe was originally in 

 ** a flate of foftnefs ; whether it was a mud re- 

 *' covered from the empire of the Waters, or, 

 ** what is more probable, a fcum detached from 

 " the Sun. The volcanos, which are fcattered 

 *' over the whole Earth, demonftrate, that the 

 f fire which formed it is Hill under our feet. Over 



* See replies to this objedion in Study IV. 



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