326 Mr. White on the Regeneration 
....... “ The firft Almighty caufe 
Atts not by partial, but by general laws. 
Pope’s Eflay on Man; 
The Deity has drawn the line, has fixed the 
limits, and has faid to Nature, hither (halt thou 
go, and no further. 
If this order does not appear to us to be 
uniformly preferved, we muft not conclude that 
it is not really fo, but that it is owing to our 
{lender capacities, that we are unable to trace 
his hand through all his ways, 
“ See and confefs, one comfort dill mud rife, 
“ ’Tis this, tho’ man’s a fool, yet God is wife.” 
Loc. citat'. 
The ancients knew that a frefh broken bone 
vvould unite by a callus, that wounds of the flefli 
would fill up by what is called incarnation, and 
would be healed over with {kin, by what is called 
cicatrization. But all vain glorious boafting 
man muft not from hence pretend, that he can 
make a Angle fibre grow : this is the aft of 
Nature only- The ableft furgeon living, can 
do no more than afiift her, remove the prefent 
obftacles, and prevent others being thrown in 
her way. 
“ Yes Nature’s road mud ever be preferr’d ; 
“ Reafon is here no guide, but dill a guard.” 
Loc. citat. 
The moderns have carried this matter further. 
I did myfelf the honour to lay before the 
Boyal Society, a remarkable cafe of a broken 
• ' - bone, 
