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All Avhichis deliveikl not only with afingular brevity and 
4)Iainefs5 [butaifo with that ingenuity jthat the Author eve* 
ry where candidly acknowledgeth, to whom he is chiefly 
obliged in thefe Eflayes, alledging among the Efiglijh Philo- 
fophers moft frequently and very honourably, the Noble 
Robert Boyle, and not forgetting the Illuftrious ^^^"^» and 
Digby^t\\t Learned Gilbert^Hartfej/^GlTjin^ Goddard^Merret^ 
Willis.Hook^ Am^ong the Fre^r/j 5 the famous Grf/^w^i, De/- 
Cartes.Vafcal^Fabry^Magnan^Du Clos^Morin^ Veiit^ Cordemoy : 
Among the Italians 3 the Excellent GaliUo^ Torricelli^Cabce^ 
ns^ZHcchius.Riccms : Among the Dutch \ the Curious Otho 
de Geriok^^Grimaldus.BontiHs^ Tifo^WaUus^Syhjur^Tacheni- 
us^VojJiHs : Aqd among the Danes^th^ Learned Erafiftus Bar- 
tolin, : ' 
In the mentioning of which candour in our Author , 
muft yet take notice of one particularjalledged by the fame, 
relating to that Honourable perfon^whofe Writings he fo of- 
ten maketh ufe of (I mean Mr* Boyle:) Which is, That^when 
Mr.D«H4/;^g/decIareth p.57this<iiflent from kiMin the Ex- 
plication of the mannerjhow the World once framed, and 
the Courfe of Nature onceeftablifhedjare prefervedjheun- 
derftands hira^who difcaurfes thereof in his Treatife of the 
Origine of Forms and ^alities p. 1 04» as if he excluded from 
the Generation and Growth of Living Creatures, the Crea- 
tors IsTen? Concourfe^ and efteems, that to the admirable 
ftrufture of Animals^and the vvonderfull variety ^ufe and di- 
ftinftion of their Organs, there is more required, than can 
be accounted for by the Common Laws of rnotion. In an- 
fwerto which, wedefire^it may be obferved 5 that as 
Du Hamel declareth not for the neceffity of a particular Con- 
courfe of the Creator in the Phoenomena infifted on by him, 
fo that judicious writerjwbom he reflefts upon, will, not be 
found to deny that new Concourfe, pleaded for by du Ha- 
mel 5 but ratherjby aflerting the continued general and or* 
dinary fupport and influence of the Firft Gaufeimplyeth 
that that prefervation and concourfe ever and conftantly 
^ perpetuated 
