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APPENDIX. 



That all Is in God is evident ; for otherwife all things could not 

 have been produced out of him : And that he is in all, is evident 

 from the wonderful order and arrangement of things in the uni- 

 verfe, which could not have been without Supreme Intelligence. 

 And our fcripture fays, with refpedl to the nobleft animal on this 

 earth, that is man, that in God -we itve^ are moved^ and have our 



BFANG. 



And this compleats that wonderful union of things in the univerfe, 

 by which every thing contains fome other thing, and is contained 

 in it ; for it appears that the tirft caufe contains every thing in the 

 univerfe, and is contained in every thing. 



But many of the philofophers of this age (I believe I may fay all 

 of tiiem) are of opinion that what we call genufes and fpeciefes, by 

 which I have fliown the wonderful union of things in the univerfe, 

 have no exlftence in nature, and are not the works of God, but the 

 works of man, who, from the conformity that he has obferved be- 

 twixt the different individual fubjedls, has formed the ideas of ge- 

 nufes and fpeciefes, and in that way has ordered and arranged the 

 feveral beings in the heavens and earth, that have fallen under his 

 obfervation. What I have faid, therefore, of the genufes being fe- 

 parate beings, which have produced the fpeciefes, and of the fpecie- 

 fes being alfo feparate beings, producing in like manner the indivi- 

 duals of the fpeciefes, is all mere imagination, and afcribing pre- 

 fumptuoufly to God and Nature the imaginations of our minds. At 

 the fame time they do not deny that thofe qualities of things, which 

 we fay conftitute genufes and fpeciefes, really exift in the feveral 

 things from which we have colleded them ; nor do they deny that 

 there is an idea in every one of thofe particular fubjeits, which 

 makes them what they are, and gives them all their different quali- 

 ties : But Nature, they fay, has made no colledion of them, fuch as 



form. 



