of the Earth. 



is not permitted to fiak to tbe bottom ; 

 or^ if any of it do, 'tis railed up again 

 by the next Storm, and being fupport- 

 ed in the Mafs of Water, together 

 with the reft, 'tis by degrees exhaled, 

 mounted up with the Rain that rifes 

 thence, and returned back again to the 

 Earth in fruitful Showers. Ihat by 

 this perpetual Circulation a vaft many 

 things in the Syftem of Nature are 

 tranlafted : and two main Intentions 

 of Providence conftantly proracted 5 

 the om a Difpeniation of Water pro-- 

 mifcuouCly and indifferently to all 

 parts of the Earth ; this being the im- 

 mediate Agent that both bears the con- 

 ftitqent Matter to all formed Bodies^ 

 and, when brought to them, infinuates 

 it in, and diftributes it unto the feve- 

 ral parts of thofe Bodies, for their Pre- 

 fervation and Growth : the other, the 

 keeping a juft jEquilibrium ( if I may 

 fo fay) betwixt the Sea and Land 5 the 

 Water, that was raifed out of the Sea, 

 for a Vehicle to this Matter, being by 

 this means refunded back again into it ■ 

 and the Matter it felf reftored to its ori- 

 ginal Fund and Promptuary, the Earthy 

 whereby each is reftraiced, and kept 

 CO due Bounds ; fo that the Sea may 



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