38 I'he Wisdom of GOD Parti. 



'Epicurus and Democritus, I fhould now proceed 

 to give particular Inftances of the Art and Wif- 

 dom clearly appearing in the feveral Parts and 

 Members of the Univerfe ; from which we may 

 juftly infer this general Conclufion of the Pfal- 

 mift. In Wtfdom haji thou made them all: But 

 that there is a Sort of profeffed Theijlsy I mean 

 Monf. Des Cartes^ and his Followers, who en- 

 deavour to difarm us of his decretory Weapon 

 to evacuate and exterminate this Argument, 

 which hath been fo fuccefsful in all Ages to de- 

 monftrate the Exiftence, and enforce the Belief, 

 of a Deity, and to convince and filence all Athe- 

 iftick Gainfayers. And this they do, 



Firft, By excluding and banifliing all Confi- 

 deration of final Caufes from Natural Philofo- 

 phy, upon Pretence, that they are all and eve- 

 ry one in particular undifcoverable by us j and 

 that it is Raflinefs and Arrogance in us to think 

 *we can find out God's End, and be Partakers of 

 his Councils. Atque ob hanc u?iicam raiionemy 

 totum illud caufarum genus quod a fine peti folet^ 

 in rebus Phyficis nullum ufum habere exijiimo \ non 

 enim abfque temeritate me puto invefiigare pojj'es 

 fines Dei, Medit. Metaph. And for this only 

 Reafon, I thinks all that Kind of Caufes which is 

 wont to be taken from the End^ to have no life in 

 Thyfics or natural Matters j for I cannot with- 

 out Rafionefs thiiik my felf able to find out the Ends 

 of God, And again, in his Principles of Philo- 

 fophy ; Nullas unquam rationes circa res NaturaleSy 

 a fine quern Deus aut Natura in iis faciendis fibi 

 propofuity admittimuSy quia non tantum nobis de- 



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