4>oo Mifcettanea Gurioja. 



with the attraSive Force of feme or o« 

 ther Stars. 



Dr. Childrey in his Britannia Baconi- 

 ca (a) has from feveral Inftances (hewn 

 the Lunar Aftion in Damages of this 

 kind. 



Such and the like Natural Caufes 

 have Storms and Temp efts 5 for as to 

 the Queftion of Divine Power, whe- 

 ther or no Calamities of this kind do 

 not fometimes, by the Anger of Hea- 

 ven, happen out of the Courfe of Na- 

 ture, it is not my Bufinefs to Difpute, 

 nor would I by any means indeavour 

 to abfolve Mens Minds from the 

 Bands of Religion. For although we 

 muft allow all the Parts of the Ma- 

 chine of this World to be framed and 

 moved by Eftabliflied Laws, and that 

 the fame Difpofition of its Fabrick, 

 which is raoft beneficial to the Whole, 

 muft of neceffity, in fome few Places 

 now and then occafion Hurts and Mif- 

 chiefs 5 it is however 1130ft highly rea* 

 fonable, that we ftiould yield to the 

 Supreme Creator an abfolute Power 

 over all his Works 5 Concluding with- 

 al, that it was perhaps agreeable to Di- 

 vine Wifdom , to order the Make 



of 



(a) Pag, 97. 



