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without any Comminution, or fo much as break- 

 ing the Skin ; even as it is feen that the Juice 

 of Grapes is drawn as well * whole Grapes pluck'd 

 from the * Rape, where from the Ciufter, and 

 thev remain whole , as "^i^e pour'd upon the^i 

 from a Vat, where they are ^^ ^ ^''^^"^• 

 bruis'd ; to borrow the Parijian Philofophers 

 Similitude. 



4. Fipes^ which neither chew their Meat in 

 their Mouths, nor grind it in their Stomachs, 

 do by the Help of a diffolvent Liquor, there by 

 Nature provided, corrode, and reduce it, Skin, 

 Bones and all, into a Chylus or Cremor ; and yet 

 (which may feem wonderful ) this Liquor ma- 

 nifefts nothing of Acidity to theTafte : But not- 

 withftanding , how mild and gentle foever it 

 fcems to be, it corrodes Flefh very ftrangely 

 and gradually, 2^^ Aquafortis^ or the like corro- 

 five Waters, do Metals, as appears to the Eye \ 

 for I have obferved Fifli in the Stomachs of 

 others thus partially corroded, iirfl the fuper- 

 ficial Part of the Flefh, and then deeper and 

 deeper by Degrees to the Bones. 



I come now to the fecond Fart of the Words, 

 /;; Wijdom haft thou jnadethem all-, in difcourfing 

 whereof I fhall endeavour to make out in 

 Particulars what the Pfalmiji here afTerts in ge- 

 neral concerning the Works of God, that they 

 are all very wifely contrived and adapted to 

 Ends both particular and general. 



But before I enter upon this Taflc, I fliall, by 

 Way of Preface^ or IntroduBion^ fay fonnctning 

 concerning thofe Syftems which undertake to 



give 



