32 Hoe Wisdom of GOD Parti. 



vifion , but what hath Vacuities interfpers'd 

 with Matter, of various but a determinate Num- 

 ber of Figures, and equally ponderous, do per- 

 pendicularly defcend, and by their fortuitous 

 Concourfe make compound Bodies, and at laft 

 the World itfelf But now, hecaufe if all thefe 

 Atoms (hould defcend plum down with equal 

 Velocity, as according to their Dodlrine they 

 ought to do, being (as we faid ) all perfectly 

 folid andimporous, and the Facuum notrefifting 

 their Motion, they would never the one over- 

 take the other, but like the Drops of a Shower 

 would alv/ays keep the fame Diftances, and fo 

 there could be no Concourfe, or Coh^lion of 

 them, and confequently nothing created ; partly 

 to avoid this deftrudtive Confequence, and 

 partly to give fome Account of the Freedom 

 of Will ( which they did aflert contrary to the 

 Democratick Fate ) they did abfurdly feign a De- 

 clination of fome of thefe Principles, without 

 any Shadow, or Pretence of Reafon. The former 

 of thefe Motives you have fet down by Liicrc^ 

 tim de Nat, Rerum^ L. 2. in thefe Words : 



Corpora cum deorfum reBum per inane fenintur 

 Ponderibus propriisy incerto T'empore forte^ 

 Incertifque locis^ Spatio difcedere paulum \ 

 Hantum quod 7iomen mutatum dicer e pojjis. 

 And again, 



^od niji declinare filer ent^ omnia deoffium 

 Imbris uti guttce caderent per inane profundum^ 

 Necforet offenjus natiiSy nee plaga creata 

 Trincipiis^ it a nilunquam natura credjfet. 



Now 



