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And I am perfnraded, that by this fummary difcour/e (more 

 indeed., in regard of fo large a fcope , how ever my lame ex- 

 preflions may peradventure make itappeare tedious) itappea- 

 reth evidently, that none of natures greateft /ecrets^hereofcmr 

 fenfes give us notice in the effeds , are ib overloaded with an 

 impenetrable vei!e,but that the diligent and wary hand of reafon 

 m tghtunmaske them and fhew them to us, in their naked and 

 genuine formes , and delight us with the contemplation of 

 their native beauties ; if we had as muc'i care and conftancy in 

 the purfuit of them, as wee daily lee men have in heaping 

 up of wealth, orinftnvingto latisfie their boundlefle ambi- 

 tions ; or in making their fences fwimme in the muddy lake of 

 bale and contemptible plea fores. For who fliall throughly 

 confider and weigh what we have hitherto faid , will plainly fee . 

 a continuall and orderly progreffe , from the fimpleft , highett, 

 and moft common conception.that we frame of a body in gene- 

 rail, unto the furtheft and moftabftrufeeffofb, that in particu- 

 lar are to be found in any body vyhatfoever: I meane.any that is 

 meerely corporeall , without mixture of a nobler nature ; for 

 hitherto we have not moved., nor Ib much as looked out of 

 that Orbe : He/hall finde one continued thread, /punne out 

 from the beginning to the end. He will fee , that the various 

 cwiHing of the two fpeciefej of Bodits f Rare,z.n& Pcife, do make 

 rheyarnej of which all things and aiHons within the fphere of 

 matter are woven,- 



And although peradventurejn the drawing out of the thread, 

 there may be fbme little brackes , or the flu rife made of it be 

 not every where fo c!ofe wrought , as a better workman at 

 more leifure might have done ; yet truly , I believe , that the. 

 very confent of things throughout' is fiicfi, as demonflrarct'?., 

 that the mame contexture of the doctrine I have here touched,. 

 is beyond quarrelling at. It may well be that in furuiry parti- 

 culars , I have not lighted upon exad truth : and I amEb farre 

 from maintaining peremptorily any thing I have here laid , as 

 I mall moft readify hearken to whatfoever fhall beob;e5lej 

 againft it ; and be as ready upon caufe , to defert my owne opi- 



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