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bemiis arrogare ut ejus Concilioriun participes effe 

 pcfjimus. We can by ?20 Means admit any Reajbns 

 about natural Thifigs^ take?! from the E?id which 

 God or Nature proposed to themfclves in making of 

 them ; becaufe we ought not to arrogate fo 7nuch to 

 our felves, as to think we may be Partakers of his 

 Counjels. And more exprefly in his fourth Anfwer, 

 viz. to GaJJendus\ Objedions ; Nee fingi potefi^ 

 oiiquos Dei fines viagis quam alios in propatulo elTe-, 

 omnes enim imperfcrutabili ejus S apt entice. abyjTo funt 

 eodem modo reconditi ; That is, Neither can nor 

 ought we to feign or imagine that fome of God's 

 Ends are inore manifejl than others -, for all lie in 

 like Manner^ or equally hidden^ in the unfearchahle 

 Abyfs of his Wifdom. 



This confident Aflertion of Des Cartes is ful- 

 ly examin'd and reprov'd by that honourable and 

 excellent Perfon, Mr. Boyle^ in his Difquifition 

 about the final Caufes of natural l^hi?tgs^ Sed:. i. 

 from page 10. to the End 5 and therefore I 

 ihall not need fay much to it, only in brief this, 

 that it feems to me falfe, and of evil Confequence, 

 as being derogatory from the Glory of God, and 

 deftru6tive of the Acknowledgment and Belief 

 of a Deity. 



For firft, Seeing (for Inftance) that the Eye 

 is employ'd by Man and all Animals for the 

 Ufe of Vifion, which, as they are fram'd, is fo 

 neceifary for them, that they could not live 

 without it; and God Almighty knew that it 

 would be fo ; and feeing it is fo admirably fit- 

 ted and adapted to this Ufe, that all the M^it and 



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