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only to avoid all violent concourse, but'' not to shade 

 each other, so as to hinder each others kindly- influence 

 or to occasion noxious ones. 2- As it is one great in- 

 stance of the skill of an architect, to give due proportion 

 to lii.s works, so this abundantly appears in all the hea- 

 venly bodies that come under our cognizance. Curious 

 order, and due and nice proportions are observed in their 

 situations. The sun is placed in the centre of his system, 

 to give all his planets heat and light. Then follow the 

 several planets surrounding him, not scattered at all ad- 

 ventures, but at due distances from the sun, as well as 

 from one another. And this is discernible, not only in 

 the primary, but the secondary planets too : in the five 

 moons that attend Saturn, and the four that accompany 

 Jupiter. 



The wisdom of the Creator appears secondly, from 

 the motions of the heavens and the earth. That these 

 vast globes should move at all, proves seine being that 

 has power to put them in motion : seeing matter cannot 

 move itself. And suppose them moved by the sun, 

 the ether, or some oilier primary mover, still we must 

 recur to some first cause who was able to put the mover 

 into motion. And this could be no other than the hand 

 of the Almighty. What farther shews both his power 

 and wisdom, is, that those motions are not at random, 

 or in inconvenient lines and orbs, but such as manifest 

 the deepest counsel. That every planet should have as 

 many and various motions, as the world and its inhabi- 

 tants have occasion for, must be the work of a wise and 

 kind, as well as an omnipotent creator. 



In particular, the diurnal motion of these globes 

 she\ys the wisdom of the Creator. Of what prodigious 

 use is this ? Were the planets always to stand still, half 

 of each globe would be dazzled and parched with un- 

 ceasing day, and the other half wrapt in everlasting dark- 

 ness. Were this the case with our globe, a great part of 

 it at least would scarce be habitable. It would neither 

 agree with the state of man or other animals, nor of ve- 

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