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of Species as with us, and yet but few common 

 to Europe, or perhaps Africk and AJia, And if, 

 on the other Side the Equator, there be much 

 Land ftill remaining undifcover'd, as probably 

 there may, we mull fuppofe the Number of 

 Plants to be far greater. 



What can we infer from all this? If the Num^ 

 ber of Creatures be fo exceeding great, how great, 

 nay immenfe, mufl: needs be the Power and 

 Wifdom of him who form'd them all ! For (that 

 I may borrow the Words of a noble and excel- 

 lent Author) as it argues and manifells more 

 Skill by far in an Artificer, to be able to frame 

 both Clocks and Watches, and Pumps, and Mills^ 

 and Granadoes, and Rockets, than he could dif- 

 play in making but one of thofe forts of En- 

 gines; fo the Almighty difcovers more of his 

 Wifdom in forming fuch a vaft Multitude of 

 different Sorts of Creatures, and all with admi- 

 rable and irreproveable Art, than if he had cre- 

 ated but a few; for this declares the Greatnefs 

 and unbounded Capacity of his Underftanding. 

 Again • the fame Superiority of Knowledge 

 would be difplay'd, by contriving Engines of 

 the fame Kind, or for the fame Purpofes, after 

 different Fafhions, as the moving of Clocks or 

 other Engines by Springs inftead of Weights: 

 So the infinitely wife Creator hath fhewn in 

 many Inflances, that he is not confin'd to- one 

 only Influument for the working one Effed:, but 

 can perform the fame Thing by divers Means^ 

 So, tho' Feathers feem neceffary for flying, yet 

 hath he enabled feveral Creatures to fly without 



them, 



