x The. Author ¢o zhe Reader. 
flaif*< ‘The: ~meaneft of Creatures, in 
Ss ‘the Judgment.of Pliny, that. great 
& Naturalift, are as perfect in their 
« Kind, and as much Art fhewn 
in shaie Formation, as the greater; 
may, (and I may add).much more, 
vi In forming, fuch,;Things, fuch 
“¢ Nothings,, what curious Art, what 
“‘.amazing. Power .was, neceflary , 
“ there being in them fuch neste 
cable PerfeGion.” * 
»<The-Creatures are fo many Mir- 
tours, wherein we may fee God; 
the Meaneft having a Beam of God’s 
Majefty. Ps | 
» And afterwards he adds, I. cannet 
conceive it unworthy the greateft 
Mortals to contemplate the Miracles 
of Nature, fince the meaneft, and 
-moft contemptible Creatures mea: 
the infinite - Power and Wifdom of 
‘the igemat Creator, drawing the Minds 
| hat 
~ ®* In magnis fiquidem Corporibus in bis. tam par- 
wis, atque tam nullis, que Ratio, quanta Vis et inextri~ 
cabilis Pérfeétio? ~ ae Lib, f2.¢.2°°~ 
t Pure, Epift. Ded. 

