Ray. ' 237 
Originally, and in its outlines. College Exer-^ 
cifes only, or Common Places, Thefe he 
now wrought up, and enlarged into a con- 
venient volume, and trufted it to the care 
of his friend. Dr. Tlz/^irr^^ Robinson, who 
procured five hundred copies to be printed, 
under the following title: The Wis- 
DOM OF God manifested in the 
Works of the Creation/* S"". 1691. 
It was reprinted the next year. The ele- 
venth edition was publifhed in 1743 ; and 
a twelfth in 1758 ; and, I believe, feveral 
times fince : and it has been tranflated into 
foreign languages. Thefe are fafficient tef- 
timonies of the efteem with which it was 
received by the public. 
It is not immediately within my plan to 
enlarge on this work, or to determine \vhe- 
ther the arguments a priori, ot a pofieriori^ 
are beft calculated to obtain the objeS of it, 
Demonftration of the Being of a God." 
^/ hijloriam natur(^, iiaturce etiam CreatO" 
rem colitJ' I may be allowed to obferve, that 
Mr. Ray, from that comprehenfive view of 
nature which his mind embraced, was fingu- 
larly well qualified to difplay the manifold 
wonders 
