3©o 77>e Wisdom of GOD Part If. 



have found in a Paper received from a Friend, but 

 whom I have forgotten, that Melon-Seeds after 

 thirty Years are beft for raifing of Melons. As for 

 the Muftard that fprung up in the IJJe of Ely^ tho' 

 there had never been any in that Country, yet 

 might it have been brought down in the Channels 

 by the Floods, and fo being thrown up the Banks 

 together with the Earth, might germinate and 

 grow there. 



And indeed a fpontaneous Generation of Ani- 

 mals and Plants, upon due Examination, will be 

 found to be nothing lefs than a Creation of them; 

 for after the Matter was made, and the Sea and 

 dry Land feparated, how is the Creation of Plants 

 and Animals defcrib'd, but by a commanding, 

 that is, effeftually caufing the Waters and Earth 

 to produce their feveral Kinds without any Seed ? 

 Now Creation being the Work of Omnipotency, 

 and incommunicable to any Creature, it muft be 

 beyond the Power of Nature or natural Agents 

 to produce Things after that manner. And as for 

 God Almighty, he is faid to have refted from his 

 Work of Creation after the feventh Day. But if 

 there be any fpontaneous Generation, there was 

 nothing done at the Creation but what is daily 

 done y for the Earth and Water produced Animals 

 then without Seed, and fo they do ftilL • 



Becaufe fome, I underftand, have been offend- 

 ed at my confident Denial of all fpontaneous Ge* 

 neration, accounting it too bold and groundlefs, 



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