66 ^ 7l)e Wisdom of GOD Parti. 



or mov'd him more conveniently for the Ser- 

 vice thereof, as I could eafily make appear by the 

 Inconveniences that v^ould follow upon the 

 Suppofition of any other Situation and Motion, 

 fhew forth the great Wifdom of him who fo 

 difpos'd and mov'd him. 



Secondly, The Moon, a Body in all Probabi- 

 lity fomewhat Hke the Earth we live upon, by 

 its conftant and regular Motion, helps us to di- 

 vide our Time, reflects the Sun-beams to us, and 

 fo by illuminating the Air, takes away in fome 

 Meafure the difconfolate Darknefs of our Winter- 

 Nights; procures, or at leaft regulates, the Fluxes 

 and Refluxes of the Sea, whereby the Water is 

 kept in conftant Motion, and preferv'd from Pu- 

 trefaction, and fo render'd more falutary for the 

 Maintenance of its Breed, and ufeful and fervice- 

 able for Man's Convenience of Fifliing and Na- 

 vigation ', not to mention the great Influence it 

 is fuppos'd to have upon all moift Bodies, and 

 the Growth and Increafe of Vegetables and Ani- 

 mals : Men generally obferving the Age of the 

 Moon in the planting of all Kinds of Trees, 

 fowing of Grain, grafting and inoculating, ' and 

 pruning of Fruit-Trees, gathering of Fruit, 

 cutting of Corn or Grafs -, and thence alfo ma- 

 king Prognofticks of Weather, becaufe fuch Ob- 

 fervations feem to me uncertahi. Did this Lu- 

 tninavj ferve to no other Ends and Ufes, as 1 am^ 

 perfuaded it doth many, efpecially to maintain 

 the Creatures which in all likelihood breed and 

 inhabit there, for which I refer you to the inge- 

 nious Treatifcs written by Bifbop Wilkins, and 



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