8o T:he Wisdom of GOD Partf. 



and Maintenance of Men, who by the continual 

 Striving and Fighting to enlarge their Bounds, 

 and encroaching upon one another, feem to be 

 ftraitned for want of Room. 



To this Objection againft the Wifdom of 

 God in thus dividing Sea and Land^ Mn Keill^ 

 in his Examination of Dr, Burnet'j Theory of 

 the Earthy p. 92, 93. thus anfwers ; "this, as 

 moji other of the Athetfis Argument s^^ proceeds from 

 a deep Ignorance of Natural Philofophy ; for if there 

 were but half the Sea that now is, there would be 

 ^Ifobut half the ^antity of Vapours, and confequent- 

 ly we could have but half fo many Rivers as now 

 there are to fupply all the dry La?id we have at 

 prefenty and half as much more , for the ^antity 

 of Vapours which are raisd, bears a Proportion to 

 the Surface whence they are raisd, as well as to 

 the Heat which raisd them. The Wife Creator 

 therefore did fo prudently order it^ that the Sea 

 fhould be large enough to fupply Vapours fufficient 

 for all the Land, which it would not do if it were 

 lefs than now it is. 



But againft this it may be objedted, Why 

 fliould not all the Vapours which are rais'd out 

 of the Sea fall down again into it by Rain ? Is 

 there not as much Reafon that the Vapours 

 which are exhaled out of the Earth fliould be 

 carried down to the Sea, as that thofe raifed 

 out of the Sea be brought up upon the dry 

 Land ? If fome by Winds be driven from the 

 Sea up Land, others by the fame Caufe will be 

 blown down from Land to Sea, and fo ba- 

 lancing one another, they will in Sum fall 



equally 



