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and Batteries, in all Murders and Affaffinations ? 

 In Thefts and Robberies what Security would 

 there be to Malefadlors ? who could fwear that 

 fuch and fuch were the Perfons that committed 

 the Fafts, tho' they faw them never fo clearly ? 

 Many other Inconveniences might be inftanc'd 

 in 5 fo that we fee this is no contemptible Argu- 

 ment of the Wifdom and Goodnefs of God. 



Neither is the difference of Voices lefs confi- 

 derable, for the diflinguifliing of Sexes and par- 

 ticular Perfons, and Individuals of all Animals, 

 than that of Faces ; as Dr. Cockburn makes out, 

 EJfay, &c. Part II. Pag, 68. &c. Nay, in fome 

 Cafes more ; for hereby Perfons in the dark and 

 thofe that are blind may know and diftinguilh 

 one another, which is of great Importance to 

 them, for otherwife they might be moft grofly 

 cheated and abus'd. 



Farther we may add out of the fame Author, 

 f. J I, '' And to no other Caufe [than the wife 

 " Providence of God] can be referr'd the no lefs 

 *' ftrange Diverfuy of Hand-writings. Common 

 <« Experience fhews, that though Hundreds and 

 *' Thoufands were taught by one Mailer, and 

 <* one and the fame Form of Writing, yet they 

 *' ftiould all write differently: Whether Men 

 " write Court or Ro7nan Hand, or any other, 

 " there is fomething peculiar in every one*s Wri- 

 " ting which diftinguiflieth it. Some indeed can 

 " counterfeit another's Charadter and Subfcrip- 

 " tion, but the Inftances are rare, nor is it done 

 *^ without Pains and Trouble 5 nay, the moft 



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