Part II. 1 the Earth. 



Doubt, I t^uld fcarcely ever have cre- 

 dited it. 



And though the whole Series of this 

 extraordinary Turn may feem at firft 

 view to exhibit nothing but Tumult 

 and Diforder : nothing but hurry, jar- 

 ring, and diftraftion of things : though 

 it may carry along with it fome flight 

 fliew that 'twas managed blindly and 

 at random : yet if we draw fomewhat 

 nearer, and take a clofer profped of it : 

 if we look into its retired Movements, 

 and more fecret and latent Springs, we 

 may there trace out a fteady Hand, 

 producing good out of evil : the raoft 

 confummate and abfolute Order and 

 Beauty, out of the higheft Confufion 

 and Deformity : adling with the mofl: 

 exquifite Contrivance . and Wiidom : 

 attending vigilantly throughout the 

 whole Courfe of this grand Affair, and 

 directing all the feveral Steps and Pe- 

 riods of it to an End, and that a moft 

 noble and excellent one 5 no left than 

 the Happinefs of the whole race of 

 Mankind : the Benefit, and univerfai 

 Good, of all the many Generations of 

 Men which were to come after : which 

 were to inhabit this Earth , thus mo- 

 duled anew , thus fuked to their 



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