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tations, putrefacflions, efFervefcences, fo- 

 lutions, accenfions, explofions, &c. 



These principles of motion in matter, 

 are not the vain fidions of men merely 

 fpeculative in philofophy, but evidently 

 ^educed from obfcrvations and experi- 

 ments on a great variety of bodies in ma- 

 ny different circumftances; and every one, 

 who refledls upon the moft ordinary oc- 

 currences in the works of nature and art, 

 will be convinced of the exiftence of fuch 

 caufes, and find that they are fo univer- 

 fal and unalterable, that they can only 

 be referred to the firft caufe, that is, to 

 the will of the Supreme Being. 



Art. 



