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jlrt of Men and Angels could not have contriv'd 

 it better, if fo well 5 it muft needs be highly 

 abfurd and unreafonable to afnrm, either that 

 it was not defign d at all for thisUfe, or that it 

 is impoffible lor Man to know whether it was 

 or not. 



Secondly, How can Man give Thanks and 

 Praife to God for the Ufe of his Limbs and Sen-r- 

 fes, and tliofe his good Creatures which ferve 

 for his Suftenance, when he cannot be fure .they 

 were made in any Refpeft for him ; nay, when 

 'tis as likely they were not, and that he doth 

 but abufe them to ferve Ends for which they 

 were never intended? 



Thirdly, This Opinion, as I hinted before, 

 fuperfedes and caffates the beft Meditwi we have 

 to demonftrate the Being of a Deity, leaving us 

 no other demonftrative Proof but that taken 

 from the innate Idea-, which, -if it be a Demon-r 

 ftration, is but an obfcure one, not fatisfying 

 many of the Learned theinfelves, and being too 

 fabtle and metaphyseal to be apprehended by vul- 

 gar-Capacities, and confequently of no Force 

 to perfuade and convince them. 



Secondly, They endeavour to evacuate and 

 difannul our great Argument, by pretending to 

 folve all the FljcZ:nomena of Nature, and to give 

 an Account of the Production and EfFormation 

 of the Univerfe, and all the corporeal Beings 

 therein, both celeftial and terreftrial,- as well 

 animate as inanimate, not excluding Animals 

 themfelves, by a flight Hypothejis of Matter fo 

 and fo divided and mgved. Tht Hypothefis you 



have 



