Parti. //^ //6^ Cre ATioN. 41 



have in Des Cartes^ Principles ofPhilofoph)\ Part 2. 

 All the Matter of this vijible PVorld is by him 

 fuppos'd to ha've been at firji divided by God into 

 Farts nearly equal to each other ^ of a nieafi Size^ 

 viz. about the Bigne/'s of tho/e whereof the Hea- 

 njenly Bodies are now co7npounded \ all together 

 having as much Motion as is now found in the 

 World ; and thefe to have been equally movd feve- 

 roMy every one by it felf about its own Center^ and 

 among one another^ Jb as to coinpoje a fluid Body \ 

 and alfo many of them joi?2tly^ as in company^ 

 about fever al other Points Jo far difiant fro?n one 

 another^ and in the fame Manner difposd as the 

 Centers of the fix d Stars ?ww are. So that God had 

 no more to do than to create the Matter, divide 

 it into Parts, and put it into Motion, according 

 to fome few Laws, and that would of it felf 

 produce the World, and all Creatures therein. 



For a Confutation of this Hypothefisy I might 

 refer the Reader . to Dr. Cudwortb's Syltem 

 p. 603, 604. but for his Eafe I will tranfcribe the 



Words: God, in the mean Time, {landing 



by as* an idle Spectator of this Luciis Atomorum^ 

 this fportful Dance of Atoms^ and of the various 

 Refults thereof Nay, thefe mechanick Thcifts 

 have here quite outftripp'd and outdone the yi/i?- 

 mick Theifts themfelves, they being much more 

 extravagant than ever thofe were ; for the pro- 

 feffed Atheifis durft never venture to affirm, that 

 this regular Syflem of Things refulted from the 

 ' fortuitous Motions of Atoms at the very firft, 

 before they had for a long Time together pro- 

 duced many other inept Combinations^ or aggregate 



Forms 



