Part I. in tie Creatio n. 67 



Monfieur Fontenelle^ on that Subjed ; yet thefe 

 were enough to evince it to be the Effed; an4 

 Produdt of Divine Wifdom and Power. 



Thirdly, As for the reft of the PlaneU^ be- 

 fides their particular Ufes, which are to us un- 

 known, or merely conjedlural, their Courfes and 

 Revolutions, their Stations and Retrogradations, 

 obferv'd conftantly fo many Ages together in 

 moft certain and determinate Periods of Time, 

 do fufficiently demonftrate, that their Motions 

 are inftituted and governed by Counfel, Wifdom 

 and Underftanding. 



Fourthly, The like may be faid of the jixd 

 Stars^ whofe Motions are regular, equal and 

 conftant : So that we fee nothing in the Hea- 

 vens which argues Chance, Vanity, or Error ; 

 but on the contrary, Rule, Order, and Con- 

 ftancy ; the EfFefts and Arguments of Wifdom: 

 Wherefore, as Cicero excellently concludes, Ca- 

 lejiem ergo admirabilem ordinem^ incredibilemque 

 conjiantianiy ex qua converfatio & falus omnium 

 omnis oritur^ qui vacare mente putat, nee ipji 

 mentis expers habendus ejt : " Wherefore who- 

 " foever thinketh that the admirable Order, and 

 ** incredible Conftancy, of the Heavenly Bodies, 

 ^' and their Motions, whereupon the Preferva*- 

 " tion and Welfare of all Things doth depend, is 

 " not govern d by Mind and Underftanding, he 

 " himfelf is to be accounted void thereof.'^ And 

 again, " Shall we (faith he) when we fee aa 

 *' Artificial Engine, as a Sphere or Dyal, or 

 " the like, at firft ^ight acknowledge, that it is 

 *< a Work of Reafon and Art ? Cum autcra impe^ 



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