360 Tbe Wisdom of GOD Part II. 



gainft Matter of Fadt, a thing without Example, 

 not only in Man and the nobler Animals, but in 

 the fmalleft of Infefts and the vileft of Weeds ; 

 tho' the Fertility of the Earth cannot be faid to 

 have been impaired fince the beginning of the 

 World. 



(2.) Secondly, We may obferve that this Eva- 

 fion of the Atbeijt is fitted only to elude fuch Ar- 

 guments of' divine Wifdom as are taken from 

 Things neceffary to the Confervation of the Ani- 

 mal, as the Faculties ofSight, and Motion, and 

 Nutrition, and the like, becaufe fuch Ufefulnefs 

 is indeed included in a general Suppofuion of the 

 Exlftence of that Animal; but it miferably fails 

 him againit other Reafons, from fuch Members 

 and Powers of, the Body as are not neceffary ab- 

 folutely to living and propagating, but only much 

 conduce to our better Subfiftence and happier 

 Condition. So the moft obvious Contemplation 

 of the Frame of our Bodies, as that we all have 

 double Senfories^ two Eyes^ two Ears, two No- 

 firih, is an effectual Confutation of this atheiflical 

 Sophifm; for a double Organ , of thefe Senfes. is 

 not at all comprehended in the Notion of bare 

 Exiftence, one of them being fufRcient to have 

 preferv'd Life and continu'd the Species, as com- 

 mon Experience witneffeth. Nay, even the very 

 Nails of our Fingers are an infallible Token of 

 Delign and Contrivance, for they are ufeful and 

 convenient, to give Strength and Firmnefs to thofe 

 i'arts in the various Funftions they are put to, 



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