Qentury IX. 





Places&r the m-mbs, and Matrices, ot the Females. And therefore all Crea- 

 tures, made of PutrefaBion, are of more Vncertain Shape j And are made 

 in Shorter lime', And need not fo Per fed an Enclosure, though fome clofe- 

 nejj'e be commonly required. As for the Heathen Opinion, which was, that 

 upon great Mutations of the World, PerfeB Creatures were fir ft Eugendred 

 o{ Concretion-, As well as Frogs and worms , and Flies, and fuch like, are 

 now; We know it to be vain: But if any fuch Thing fhouldbe admitted, 

 Difcourfing according to Senfe, it cannot be, except you admit of 

 a Chaos firft , and Commixture of Heaven and Earth : For 

 the Frame of the world once in Order, cannot 

 effed it by any Excejje or Cafu&ltie* 





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