Part I. in the Creation. 43 



Caufe of Tbeifm thus betrayed by its profefs'd 

 Friends and Afferters, and the grand Argument 

 for the fame totally flurr'd by them, and fo their 

 Work done, as it were, to their Hands. 



Now as this argues the greateft Infenfibility of 

 Mind, or Sottifhnefs and Stupidity in pretended 

 Theijisy not to take theleaft Notice of the regular 

 and artificial Frame of Things, or of the Signa- 

 tupesof the Divine Art and Wifdom in them, nor 

 to look upon the World and Things of Nature with 

 any other Eyes than Oxen and Horfes do;,fo 

 are there many Phanomenasin Nature, which be- 

 ing partly above the Force of thefe mechmiick 

 Powers^ and partly contrary to the fame, can 

 therefore never be folv'd by them, nor without 

 Jinal CaufeSy and fome vital Principles : As for Ex- 

 ample, that of Gravity, or the Tendency of Bo- 

 dies downward, the Motion of the Diaphragm in 

 Refpiration, the Syjiole and Diajiole of the Heart, 

 which is nothing but a Mufcular Conllridion 

 and Relaxation, and therefore not mechanical 

 but vital. We might alfo add, among many 

 othefs, the Interfedtion of the Planes of the 

 Equator and Ecliptick^ or the Earth's diurnal 

 Motion upon an Axis not parallel to that of the 

 Eclipticky nor perpendicular to the Plane there- 

 of: For tho* Des Cartes would need imagine 

 this Earth of ours once to have been a Sun, and 

 fo it felf the Centre of a leffer Vortex^ whofe 

 Axis was^ then direded after this Manner, and 

 which therefore ftill kept the fame Site or Po- 

 fture, by Reafon of the ftrait Particles finding 

 no fit Pores, or Traces, for their PalTages through 



