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more than Twenty Thoufand.) I anfvver, there 

 were lb many made, 



1. To manifeft and difplay the Riches of the 

 Power and Wifdom of God, Pfalm civ. 24. The 

 Earth is full of thy Riches, fo is the great and wide 

 Seay wherein are Things creeping injiumerable, &c* 

 We fhould be apt to think too meanly of thofe 

 Attributes of our Creator, fhould we be able to 

 come to an End of all his Works, even in this 

 fublunary World ; and therefore I believe never 

 any Man yet did, never any Man fhall fo long as 

 the World endures, by his utmoft Induftry attain 

 to the Knowledge of all the Species of Nature ; 

 hitherto we have been fo far from it, that in Ve- 

 getables the Number of thofe which have been 

 difcover'd this laft Age hath far exceeded that of 

 all thpfe which were known before j fo true is 

 that we quoted before out of Seneca: Fufilla res 

 eji munduSy niji in eo quod qucerat omnis, mundus, 

 habeat. The World is fo richly furnifh'd and pro- 

 vided, that Man need not fear want of Employ- 

 ment fhould he live to the Age of Methujelah, or 

 ten times as long ; but of this, having touch'd it 

 already, I {hall add no more. 



2. Another reafon why fo many Kinds of Crea- 

 tures were made, might be to exercife the con- 

 templative Faculty of Man, which is in nothing 

 fo much pleas'd as in variety of Objects ; we foon 

 grow weary of one Study, and if all the Objects 

 of the World could be comprehended by us, we 

 fhould with Alexander think the World too little 

 for us, and grow weary of running in a Round of 



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