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T O T H E 



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\HE Divine Wifdom fo 'varioujly difplayed in the JVorks of 

 Nature, even the loiveft Order of them, entertains the hu- 

 man Eye with Projpecls exquifitely beautiful afid pleafur- 

 able : As our Knowledge is defeSiive, we are at a lofs how 

 to account perfeSlly for the particular Ends of their Formation, and 

 Manner of their Subferviency to the Whole of the Eternal Defgn. 



HOWEVER, by Obfervation and Improvements in Natural 

 Philofophy, we are afjured thus far ; that as the Almighty Creator 

 made nothing in 'vain, fo all his Works are good, and admirably fit- 

 ted to aiifwer the Purpofes of his Will-, and that his Wifdom, like 

 his tender Mercies, fnnes through all the Syjlems of his Creatures. 



I' H AT there is not a wife Purpofe in every thing that is made^ 

 becaufe we do not underfland it, is as abfurd as for a Man to fay., 

 there is nofuch thing as Lights becaufe he is hlindy and has no Eyes 

 to fee it. 



FOR the Fllujiration of this, we may take a fhort View of 

 Creatures^ in vulgar account too diminutive and defpicable a Species, 

 to deferve a clofe Attention : And among thefe. If we confider the 

 Noxious, we pall find, if not an Argument why they fhould be made, 

 yet wefhall be able to difcern no Reafon why they fhould not, becaufe 

 their Noxioufnefs is not fo unavoidable ^ but that we may, and almofi 

 every one does avoid it. 



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