128 7"^^ Wisdom of GOD Parti. 



taken notice of) is a great Argument of a fupe- 

 rior Author of their and other Natures, who 

 hath endu'd them with thefe Inftind^s, whereby 

 they are as it were adted and driven to brmg 

 about Ends which themfelves aim not at (fo far 

 as we can difcern) but are directed to; for (as 

 Arijiotle obferves) m-n -nym^ cvtz ^yiTkKjyjV-nz, ovrz 

 iSorjhd^o-Dl/jucvct TTDiS, they a^ not by Art^ neither do 

 they enquire^ neither do they deliberate about what 

 they do. And therefore, as Dr. Cudworth faith 

 well, they are not Mafters of that Wifdom ac- 

 cording to which they adl, but only paffive to 

 the Inftinds and Imprefles thereof upon them. 

 And indeed to affirm that brute Animals do all 

 thefe things by a Knowledge of their own, and 

 which themfelves are Mafters of, and that with- 

 out Deliberation and Confu^tation, were to make 

 them to be endu'd with a moft perfed Intelleft, 

 far tranfcending that of human Reafon ; whereas 

 it is plain enough that Brutes are not above Con- 

 fultation, but below it, and that thefe Inftinds 

 of Nature in them are nothing but a kind of Fate 

 upon them. 



The Migration of Birds from an hotter to a 

 colder Country, or a colder to an hotter, accor- 

 ding to the Seafons of the Year, as their Nature 

 is, 1 know not how to give an Aqcount of, it is 

 fo ftrange and admirable. What moves them to 

 fbift their Quarters ? You will fay, the Difagree- 

 ablenefs of the Temper of the Air to the Con- 

 ftitution of their Bodies, or want of F^od. 



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