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prov'd it before) that there can be no cafual or 

 Spontaneous motion of the Particles of Matter, it 

 will follow, that every fingle Monfter, among 

 fb many fuppos'd Myriads, muft have been me- 

 chanically and necelfarily form'd, according to 

 the known Laws of Motion, and the Tempera- 

 ment and Quality of the Matter it was made of, 

 which is fufficient that no fuch Monfters were or 

 Gpuld have been form'd ; for to denominate themr 

 even Monfters they muft have had fome rude kind 

 of drganical Bodies, fome Stamina of Life, tho' 

 never fo clumfy, fome Syjlem of Parts, compoun- 

 ded of Solids and Liquids, that executed (tho' but 

 bunglingly) their peculiar Motions and Functions. 

 But we have lately fliewn it impoffible for Na- 

 ture unaflifted to conftitute fuch Bodies, whofe 

 Strudlure is againft the Law of fpecifick Gravity ; 

 fo that flie could not make the leaft Endeavour 

 towards the producing of a Monfter, or of any 

 thing that hath more vital and organ ical Parts 

 than we find in a Rock of Marble or a Fountain 

 of Water. And again, tho' we fhould not con- 

 tend with them about* their Monfters and Abor- 

 tions, yet feeing that they fuppofe even the per- 

 fed: Animals that are ftill in being to have been 

 form'd mechanically among the reft, and only 

 add fome Millions of Monfters to the Reckoning, 

 they are liable to all the Difficulties in the for- 

 mer Explication, and are exprefly refuted thro' 

 the whole preceding Ser?no?i^ where it is abun- 

 . dantly fliewn that a fpontaneous Production is 

 againft the CathoUck Laws of Motion, and a- 



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