62 77)e Wisdom of GOD Parti. 



of Gravity, and the other of Circular Motion. 

 By the firft they are preferv'd from Diffolution 

 and DifTipation, which the fecond would other- 

 wife infer : For it being by the Confent of 

 Philofophers, an innate Property of every Body 

 mov'd circularly about any Centre, to recede, 

 or endeavour to recede, from that Centre of its 

 Motion, and the more ftrongly the fvvifter it is 

 mov'd, the Stars and Planets being whirl'd about 

 with g^at Velocity, would fuddenly, did no- 

 thing inhibit it, at leaft in a ihort Time, be 

 fhatter'd in Pieces, and fcatter'd every Way thro' 

 the Ether. But now their Gravity unites and 

 binds them up faft, hindring the Difperfion of 

 their Parts. I will not difpute what Gravity 

 is s only I will add, that, for ought I have heard, 

 or read, the Mechanical Philofophers have not 

 as yet given a clear and fatisfadiory Account of 

 it. 



The fecond Thing is a circular Motion upon 

 their own AxeSy and in fome of them alfo, it's 

 probable, about other Points, if we admit the 

 Hypothefis of every fix'd Stars being a 'Sun or 

 Sun-like Body, and having a Choir of JPla- 

 nets in like Manner moving about him. Thefe 

 Revolutions, we have Reafon to believe, are 

 as exad:ly equal and uniform as the Earth's are ; 

 which could not be, were there any Place for 

 Chance, and did not a Providence continually 

 over-fee and fecurc them from all Alteration or 

 Imminuation, which either internal Changes in 

 their own Part, or external Accidents and Oc- 

 currences, would at one Time or other nece^arily 



induce. 



