wherein all the reason and philosophy of atheism is confuted, and

"Chap. III. not Unphilofopbical. 14.9that therefore it was hoUoiv in one place, and plain in another, and thelike; and by that means the whole came to be of fuch a form. For is it notaltogether as abfurd and ridiculuus, for men to undertake ' to give an accountof the formation and organization of the bodies of animals, bymere fortuitous mechanifm, without any final or intending caufaiity, aswhy there was an heart here, and brains there -, and why the heart hadfo many and fuch different valves in the entrance and outlet of its ventricles; and why all the other organick parts, veins and arteries, nervesand mufcles, bones and cartilages, with the joints and members, wereof fuch a form ? Becaufe forfooth, the fluid matter of the feed happened tomove fo and fo in feveral places, and thereby to caufe all thofe differences,which are alio diverfe in different animals ; all being the neceffaryrefult of a certain quantity of motion at firfl indifferently imprelTed uponthe fmall particles of the matter of this univerfe turned round in avortex. But, as the fame Arijiotle adds, no carpenter or artificer is fo Ample,as to give fuch an account as this, and think it fatisfaftory, but he willrather declare, that himfclf diredlcd the motion of the inftruments, afterfuch a manner, and in order to fuch ends :* (iiXnw o t£x7«v, k yxo Ixx^o'j Utui « y^ p^^fOiUTij), TO Toffurov £i7r?iv, OTI iiJ.Tr£(TOino^rii oayciw, &C. xXXx Sicri tt,]/ TrXrtycj lircin(rix,TO /^n, /, i.f.i,ToiauT>)v, Xj Tiuo; svcx^, iPii t>}u airian, oTTwf toiodJi n roto-jiviTroie tiiu u.oc(p-ffj yivnTOci.A carpenter would give a better account than fo, for he would not think itfufficient to fay, that the fabrick came to be of fuch a form, becaufe the inftrumentshappened to fall fo and fo, but he will tell you that it was becaufehimfelf made fuch ftrokes, and that he directed the inftruments and determinedtheir motion after fuch a manner, to this end that he might make the whole afabrick fit and ufeful for fuch purpofes. And this is to afljgn the finalcaufe. And certainly there is fcarcely any man in his wits, that will not acknowledgethe reafon of the different vaiVes in the heart from the apparentufefilnefs of them, according to thofe particular If ructures of theirs, to bemore fatisfactory, than any, which can be brought irom mere fortuitous mechanifm,or the unguided motion of the femiinal matter.4. And as for the latter part of the di^juni5tion, that every thing in naturefhould be done immediately by God himfelf; this, as, according tovulgar apprehenfion, it would render divine Providence operofe, follicitousand diftraftious, and thereby make the belief of it to be entertained withgreater difficulty, and give advantage to Atheifts; fo, in the judgment ofthe writer ^^ mundo, it is not fo decorous in refpefb of God neither, that hefhould auTKfj'Ed/ axaura, fet his own hand, as it were, to every work, andimmediately do all the meaneft and triflingeft things himfelf drudgingly,without making ufe of any inferior and fubordinate inflruments. * Ei'^ff * Ccf. 7,Hq-i^vov i)j aojTou (J'oxEiu Ri^'^rcj ct-jTis^yliv a,TroajTx, xj JiaTfAliu a, jSsAaiTO, £(pij-«ji*£wu3