64 Tl^e Wisdom of GOD Parti. 



Jlial Phanome7ta, he fhauld prefume blafphemouf- 

 ly to fay, that the Univerfe was a bungling 

 Piece 5 and that if he had been of God's Coun- 

 fel, he could have diredled him to have made it 

 better. A Speech as ra{h and ignorant, as daring 

 and prophane. 



For it w^as nothing but Ignorance of the true 

 Procefs of Nature, that induced the Contrivers 

 of that Hjpothefis to invent fuch abfurd Sup- 

 politiofts, and him to accept them for .true, and 

 attribute them to the great Author of the 

 Heavenly Motions : For in the New Hypothefis 

 of the Modern Aflronomers, we fee moft of 

 thofe Abfurdities and Irregularities re<5Vify'd 

 and removed ;. and I doubt , not but they would 

 all vanifh, could we certainly difcover the true 

 Method and Procefs of Nature in thbfe Revo- 

 lutions : For feeing in thofe Works of Nature 

 which we converfe with, we conftantly find 

 thofe Axioms true, Natiira no?i facit circuituSy 

 Nature doth not fetch a Compafs when it may 

 proceed in a ftraight Line ; and Natura nee abim- 

 dat in fuperfluisy nee deficit in neeejfariisy Nature 

 abounds not in what is fuperfluous, neither is 

 deficient in what is necefiTary : We may alfo 

 rationally conclude concerning the Heavenly 

 Bodies, feeing there is fo much Exadnefs ob- 

 ferv'd in the Time of their Motions, that they 

 punctually come about in the fame Periods to 

 the Hundredth Part of a Minute, as may, be- 

 yond Exception, be demonftrated by comparing 

 their Revolutions ; furcly there is alfo us'd the 

 rpoft fimple, facile, and convenient Way for 



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