362 "The Wisdom of GOD Part II, 



of Bacchus \ the Sciopedes and EnotocetcCy and other 

 monftrous Nations, would be no longer Fables, 

 but real Inftances in Nature; and in a word, all 

 the ridiculous and extravagant Shapes that can be 

 imagined, all the Fancies and Whimfies of Poets 

 and Painters, and /Egyptian Idolaters, if fo be 

 they are confiftent with Life and Propagation, 

 would be now adually in Being if our Atbeijh 

 Notion were true; which therefore may defer- 

 vedly pafs' for a mere Dream and an Error, till 

 they pleafe to make new Difcoveries in the 'terra 

 iTicognita^ and bring along with them fome Sava- 

 ges of all thefe fabulous and monftrous Configu- 

 rations. Thus far Dr. Bentley: who adds four 

 Confiderations more to confute this Fancy, ex 

 abunda7itt^ granting the Atheiji all the abfurd Sup- 

 pofitions he «can make ; for which, tho' they be 

 very well worth the reading, yet being too long 

 to tranfcribe, I refer the Reader to the Sermon 

 itfelf 



I fliall now farther prove by a notable Inftance 

 that Ufes made Things, that is to fay, that fome 

 Things were m-ade defignedly and on purpofe for 

 fuch an Ufe as they ferve to ; and that is, the 

 Tendrels or Clafpers of Plants, becaufe they are 

 given only to fuch Species as have weak and in- 

 firm Stalks, and cannot raife up to fupport them- 

 felvesby their own Strength ; we fee not fo much 

 as one Tree, or Shrub, or Herb, that hath a firm 

 and ftrong Stem, and that is able to mount up 

 and ftand alone without Affiftance, furnifti'd with 

 them ; whereas had they been without Defigi> " 



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