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Now if the number of creatures even in this lower 

 world, be so exceeding groat : how great, how im- 

 mense must be the power and wisdom of Him that 

 formed thorn all ! I r or as it argues far more skill 

 in an artificer, to be abb to frame both clocks, and 

 watches, and pumps, and many other sorts of machines, 

 than he could display in making but one of 'those 

 sorts of engines : so the Almighty declares more of 

 his wisdom, in forming such a multitude of different 

 sorts of creatures, a;id all with admirable and unre- 

 provable art, than if he had created but a few. 



2. Again, the same superiority of knowledge 

 would be displayed, by contriving engines for the same 

 purposes after different fashions, as the moving clocks 

 or other engines by springs instead of weights: and 

 the infinitely wise Creator, has shewn by many instan- 

 thatheisnot confined to one only instrument, 

 for the working one effect, but can perform the same 

 thing by divers means. So though most ilying crea* 

 lures have feathers,, yet hath he enabled several to 

 fly without them, .8 the bat, one sort of lizard, two 

 sorts of fishes, and numberless sorts of insects. Irv 

 Jike manner, although the air bladder in fishes seems 

 necessary for swimming : yet are many so formed as 

 to swim without it, as first, the cartilaginous-kind, 

 which nevertheless ascend and descend at pleasure, 

 although by what means we cannot tell. Secondly, 

 the cetaceous kind : the air winch they receive into 

 their lungs, in some measure answering the same 

 end. 



Yi.-t again, though God has tempered the blood and 

 bodies oi most fishes to tluir coid element, yet to shew 

 he can preserve a creature as hot as beasts themselves 

 in the coldest water, ho has placed a variety of these 

 cetaceous fidies, in the u-orthcTiiuK'Si seas. And the co- 

 pious fat wherewith their bodies are enclosed, by re- 

 iiecting the internal heat, and keeping off the external 

 cold ? keeps them warm even in the neighbourhood of 

 the pole. 



