( ii4 ) 
It tnuft be allowed that thefe two Gentlemen differ very much 
in Philofophy. The one proceeds upon the Evidence arifin g from 
' Experiments and Phenomena, and (tops where fuch Evidence is 
wanting; the other is taken up with Hypothefes, and propounds 
them, not to be examined by Experiments, but to be believed 
without Examination. The one for wantof Experiment to decide 
the Queftion, doth not affirm whether the Caufe ol Giavicy be 
Mechanical or not Mechanical : the other that it 4s a perpetual 
'Miracle if it be not Mechanical. The one Tw way of Enquiry) 
attributes it to the Power of the Creator that the lea'ft Particles of 
Matter are hard : the other attributes the Hardnefs of Matter to 
confpiring Motions, and calls it a perpetual Miracle if the Caufe 
of this Hardnefs be other than Mechanical. The one doth not 
affirm that animal Motion in Man is purely mechanical : the other 
teaches that it is purely mechanical, the Soul or Mind faccoi ding 
to the Hypothecs of anHarmoniaPralfabilita) never acting upon 
the Body fo as to alter or influence its Motions. The one teaches 
that God (the God in whom we live and move and have our Be- 
ing) is Omniprefent ; but not as a Soul of the World : the ocher 
that he is not the Soul of the World, but INTE LL.IG ENT1A 
SUPRA M UN DANA , ^Intelligence above the Bounds of 
the World; whence it feenis ft? follow that he cannot do any 
thing within the Bounds oF/tjie' World, unlefs by an incredible 
Miracle. The one teaches. that* Philofophers are to argue from 
. Phenomena and E xperimemi to the Caufes thereof, and thence to 
the Caufes of thofe Caufes, and’fo on till we come to the firft 
Caufe : the other that all the Actions of the firft Caufe are 
Miracles, and all the Laws impreft on Nature by the Will of God 
are perpetual Miracles and occult Qualities, and therefore not 
-to be confidered in Philofophy. But muft the conftant and uni- 
. ver-fal Laws of Nature, if.derived from the Power of God or 
the Addon of a Caufe not yet kndwn to us,'be called Miracles 
and occult Qualities, that is to fay, Waders and Abfur dities ? 
Muft all the Arguments fora God taken from the Phenomena of 
.Nature be exploded by new hard Names ? And muft Experimental 
. Philofophy be exploded as -miraculous and abfur d , becaufe it afferes 
nothing more than can be proved by Experiments, and we can- 
. not yet prove by Experiments that all the Phenomena in Nature 
can be folved by meer Mechanical Caufes ? Certainly thefe 
things defence to be better confidered. 
, £R T. AT A. Pag. \99Mn;. 14. putJtn Afterlsk after tie Word Lertei, 
