176 TieWisboM of GOD Parti. 



Things : For if a good Man be merciful to his 

 Beafiy then furely a good God is bountiful and be- 

 nign^ and takes Pleafure that all his Creatures en- 

 joy themfeheSy that have Life and Senfe^ and are 

 capable of Enjoyment. 



Thofe Philofophers indeed who hold Man to 

 be the only Creature in this fublunary World 

 endu'd with Senfe and Perception, and that all 

 other Animals are mere Machines or Puppets, 

 have fome reafon to think that all Things here 

 below were made for Man. But this Opinion 

 feems to me too mean, and unworthy the Ma- 

 jefty, Wifdom, and Power of God ; nor can it 

 well confift with his Veracity, inftead of a Mul- 

 titude of noble Creatures, endu'd with Life and 

 Senfe, and fpontaneous Motion, as all Mankind 

 till of late Years believ'd, and none ever doubted 

 of (fo that it feems we are naturally made to 

 think fo) to have ftock'd the Earth with divers 

 Sets of Automata^ without all Senfe and Percep- 

 tion, being wholly afted from without, by the 

 Impulfe of external Objedts. 



But be this fo, there are infinite other Crea- 

 tures without this Earth, which no confiderate 

 Man can think were made only for Man, and 

 have no other Ufe. For my part, I cannot be- 

 lieve that all Things in the World were fo made 

 for Man, that they have no other Ufe. 



For 



