A TREAITSE 



maker ; and the plummets which doe make it goe, are the row 

 and order of cauies chained together , which By the defigne of 

 thefupreame workman, do bring topafiefucheffe&s, as we fee 

 in the building of their nefts, and in doing fuch other actions, as 

 may be compared to the itrikings of the eiocke, and the ringing 

 of the alarme at due times. 



And as that King of China , upon his firtt feeing a Watch, 

 thought it a living and judicious creature, beeaufe it moved Co 

 regularly of it felfe , and believed it to be dead when it was run 

 out; till the opening of" it and the winding it up,difcovered wnto- 

 him the artifice of it : 10 any man may be excuied , that looking 

 upon thefe ftrange actions , and this admirable oeconotny of 

 fome living creaturesfliould believe them endewed with reafon, 

 untill he have well reflected upon every particular circumftance 

 of their nature and operations: for then he will difcernehow 

 thefe are but material! intf ruments of a rationall agent working 

 by them; from whole orderly prefcriptions,they have not power 

 to fwarve in the leaf t circumftance that is. Every one of which 

 confidered fmgly by it felf,hath a face of no more difficulty 3 then 

 that (for example) an engineer fliould fo order his matters, that 

 a mine (hould be ready to play exactly at fucfa an houre , by lea-* 

 vine fiich a proportion of kindled match hanging out of one of 

 the oarrels of powder, whiles in the meane time., lie either fleep- 

 etb, or attendeth to fomething elfe. 



And when you have once gained thus much of your felfe , to 

 greeuntoan orderly courfeand generation of any fingle efFe^,- 

 by the power of a materiall caufe working it ; raife but your dif- 

 courfea ftraine higher.,and looke with reverence and duty upon 

 the immenfity of that provident Architect, out of whole hands 

 thefe mafterpieces iffue,, and unto whom it is as eafie to make a 

 chaine of caufes of a thoufand or of a million of Jinks as to maKe 

 one Jinke alone : and then you will no Jonser fticke at allowing 

 the whole oeconomy of thofe actions , to be nothing elfe, but a 

 produ&ion of materiall effefts.by a due ranging and ordering of 

 materiall caufes. 



But Jet us returne to our theame : as we fee that milke com- 

 ming into the breafts of live-bearing female creatures , when 

 grow very bigge , heatetb.and maketh then fecke the 



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