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diftant, find out and make towards them^ and 

 even Lice and Mites themfelves, as flow as they 

 feem to be, can, to my Knowledge, in no long 

 time march a confiderable way to find out a con- 

 venient Harbour for themfelves. 



Here, by the by, I cannot but look upon the 

 ftrange Inftindl of this noifome and troublefome 

 Cr&aturc a Loufe, of fearching out foul and nafty 

 Clothes to harbour and breed in, as an Eflfed: of 

 divine Providence, defign'd to deter Men and 

 Women from Sluttiihnefs and Sordidnefs, and to 

 provoke them to Cleanlinefs and Neatnefs. God 

 himfelf hateth Uncleanlinefs , and turns away 

 from it, as appears by Dtv//. xxiii. 12, 13, 14. 

 But if God requires and is pleas'd with bodily 

 Cleanlinefs, much more is he fo with the Pure- 

 nefs of the Mind. Bkjfed are the pure in Hearty 

 for they pall Jie God^ Matth. v. 10. 



As for the Generation of Infedts out of putrid 

 Matter, the Experiments of Francifcus Redi, and 

 fome of our own Vtrtuoji^ give me fuflicient rea- 

 fon to rejed: it. I did but juft now mention the 

 quick Scent that Infefts have, and the great Sa- 

 gacity in finding out a proper and convenient 

 Harbour or Matrix to cherifh and hatch their 

 Eggs and feed their Young ; they are fo adted and 

 directed by Nature, as to caft their Eggs in fuch 

 Places as are moft accommodated for the Exclu- 

 fion of their Young, and where there is Food 

 ready for them as foon as they be harch'd ; nay, 

 it is a very hard matter to keep off fuch Infedts 



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