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A16681He proclaimes his shadow to be a protection to all; but who is hee would chuse such a harbour to pay for his lodging with a scracht face?
A69557But by the way; what if it be made appear, that there is really such a Power of Gravity perpetually acting in the constitution of the present System?
A69557But how could Particles so widely dispersed combine into that closeness of Texture?
A69557But then how rarely would there be any clashing at all?
A69557But then why did they not continue their descent, till they were contiguous to the Sun; whither both Mutual Attraction and Impetus carried them?
A69557How many thousand years might expire, before those solitary Vessels should happen to strike one against the other?
A69557Is it not now utterly incredible, that our two Vessels, placed there Antipodes to each other, should ever happen to concur?
A69557Now how is it possible that these things should be effected by any Material and Mechanical Agent?
A69557Now what Natural Cause can overcome Nature it self?
A69557Or were each formed in the same Orbs, in which they now move?
A69557Was it nearer to the Sun, than the present distances are?
A69557What is it that holds and keeps them in fixed Stations and Intervals against an incessant and inherent Tendency to desert them?
A69557how very rarely in comparison to the number of Atoms?
A38619242 What hinders, but that we may reckon the Globe of the Earth, as well as the Moon amongst the Stars?
A38619But to what end is her motion needfull?
A38619God created the Heaven and the Earth?
A38619How then can any one conceive Cold to be friendly to Moisture, and to be its inherent property?
A38619If the Matter radically doth lye under the dissentions of contraries, must not the Form, which springs from her very root, feel the same portion?
A38619Nay, would it not be stifled by them in its first birth and cradle?
A38619Yea, who would expect an uniform, and not a monstrous issue from the heterogeneous seed of opposite parents?
A38619whether I do not rather confirm than weaken her priviledges?
A38619whether I do not rather honour than impayr her Royalty?
A38619why may not she also stand fixt amongst so many fixt bodies?
A38619why should we fancie an external cause of motion, which may be all this time intrinsecal?
A01881And for Sacraments: Are not all the Creatures sanctified for mans vse?
A01881And what is this in effect, but to be the visible signes of inuisible grace?
A01881But how miserable were our condition?
A01881But in this their seruice, or prayers, doe they vse no meanes of deuotion?
A01881Doe you yet require some more particular notice, what they request in their prayers?
A01881Here then Reason would faine know, whether the Creatures be the effects of another, or causes of themselues?
A01881Now would you know the meaning and sence of these prayers?
A01881Shall we yet come neerer, and shew how they partake in a true sacrifice?
A01881Then it should seeme, nature becomes a petitioner: and to whom should she petition, but to that higher power which sits aboue nature?
A01881To conclude: What can be more glorious to God, then that his praise should be set forth by all his Creatures?
A01881What are the stones in the Temple, but indeed offered vp in sacrifice?
A01881What were the sacrifices of the Iewes, but indeed the offering vp of dumbe Creatures?
A01881but confusedly doe mumble vp, or bellow out their prayers, as if with their crying, and roaring, God could be praised?
A01881haue they no respect to Gods magnificence?
A01881not of her selfe, then surely of none but the Creatures; or who should make answer to this demand?
A01881what a world of mischiefe would follow?
A01881what greater deuotion, then by their example to stirre vp thy selfe?
A64761All This from Thee my Ysca?
A64761Besides, is it not most gross, That any should dog this Devil from Agrippa''s Lodging to Araris, where( sayth this Prelate) he plung''d himself?
A64761But it will be question''d perhaps, how shall we approach to the Lord, and by what means may we finde him out?
A64761Cur infinitis animos vestros curis exagiratis Miseri?
A64761Did they not in their old age Inveterat ● dierum malorum, fall to Clipping and Counterfeiting of Coyne?
A64761Did they obtain any thing by it but diseases& Poverty?
A64761Didst run with ancient Kishon?
A64761For there springs from Charitable works a Hope of Heaven, and who is he that will not gladly believe what he hopes to receive?
A64761How comes he to praemeditate, and forecast?
A64761How shall I recompence thy streams that keep Me and my Soul awak''d, when others sleep?
A64761If Riches be a Possession to be desired in this Life, what is Richer then Wisedom that worketh all things?
A64761In the first place then, I would faine know who taught the spider his Mathematicks?
A64761It were a pretty vanity, to preach when Saint Paul is ascendent, and would not a Papist smile to have his Pope elected under Saint Peter?
A64761Quae vestra vos excaecat Dementia, quaeso?
A64761Quid ultra quaeritis Mortales anxii?
A64761Quis haerebit amplius nisi lapis in Generatione Philosophicâ?
A64761Quis( sayth he) in Henrici Cornelii Agrippae sedato vultu portentosum Ingenium latuisse crediderit?
A64761Shall I seek thy forgotten Birth, and see What Dayes are spent since thy Nativity?
A64761Shall the ax boast it self against Him that heweth therewith?
A64761Tell me if you can, who taught the Hare to Countermarch, when she doubles her Trace in the pursuit to confound the sent, and puzzle her persecutors?
A64761Thus have they all- to- be- divell''d him, but why may not Trueth run in verse, aswell as scandal?
A64761Trust me thy waters yet: why, wilt not so?
A64761Videtisnè relucens illud,& Inexpugnabile Castrum?
A64761We should therefore examine who weaves the flowers of Vegetables?
A64761What a clear, running Chrystall here I find?
A64761Who would believe that in the History of Agar and Sarah, the mystery of both Testaments was couch''d, but that Saint Paul himself hath told us so?
A64761Why should thy Flouds inrich those shores, that sin Against thy Liberty, and keep thee in?
A64761and for a Period to their Memory did they not die in Despair, which is the Childe of Ignorance?
A64761canst thou tell So many yeers as holy Hiddekel?
A64761how comes he to lodge in the Center of his Web, that he may sally upon all Occasions to any part of the Circumference?
A64761or shall the saw magnifie it self against him that shaketh it?
A64761what will become of me?
A64761who bolts the branches upwards, and threds( as it were) their Roots downwards?
A64761who colours them without a pencill?
A28982And now, if it be demanded, what Benefit may redound to a Reader from the Explications given in the foregoing Seventh Section?
A28982And whether it performs its Operations by virtue of an internal Principle, such as the Spring of it ought to be?
A28982And who informs it, whether that Place lies on this hand of it, or that hand of it, or above it, or beneath it?
A28982And, Why does she furiously break in pieces a thin seal''d Bubble, such as I come from speaking of, to hinder a Vacuum?
A28982But then I demand, Whence comes this Rebound, i. e. this Motion upwards?
A28982Equidem Vnicum esse Deum summum atque magnificum, quis tam demens, tam mente captus, ut neg ● t esse certissimum?
A28982Estque Dei sedes, ubi Terra,& Pontus,& Aer, Et Coelum,& Virtus: Superos quid quaerimus ultra?
A28982For, who can clearly conceive an Order or Kind of Beings, that shall be Real Substances, and yet neither Corporeal nor Immaterial?
A28982Fourthly, It may likewise be ask''d, How the Laws of Motion come to be observ''d or maintain''d by a Corporeal Being?
A28982I demand then o ● Those, that assert such a Nature as is vulgarly describ''d, whether it be a Substance or an Accident?
A28982If it be said to be an Immaterial Substance, I shall further ask, Whether it be a Created One, or not?
A28982If the past Discourse give rise to a Question, Whether the World, and the Creatures that compose it, are as perfect as they could be made?
A28982Quid est autem cur non existimes, in eo divini aliquid existere, quae Dei pars est?
A28982Thirdly, He may also demand, Whence Nature, being a Material Substance, comes itself to have Motion, whereof''t is said to be the Principle?
A28982To which, within a few lines after, he adds, Vis illam Naturam vocare?
A28982Vis illam vocare Mundum?
A28982Whether Nature be a Thing, or a Name?
A28982and in general, from the Troublesome, as well as Free, Enquiry, whereof they make a considerable Part?
A28982or of an external one, such as one may think the appended Weight?
A37987* Ipse mundus quoties per noctem ignes suos fudit,& tantum stellarum innumerabilium refulsit, quem non intentum in se tenet?
A37987* ● uid cùm ordo temporum ac frugum stabili varietate distingultur?
A37987A great Naturalist takes special Notice of this, and cries out, † What is more Wonderful than the Waters standing in the Air?
A37987And if it be ask''d, Whence is that Fewel for those vast Fires, which continually burn?
A37987And if it be more sensible, what is the reason that according to them we have no perception of it?
A37987And if the Ear shall say, because I am not the Eye, I am not of the Body; is it therefore not of the Body?
A37987And the Permanency of this excellent Order shews its Author: Wherefore to that Question,* Whence doth it appear that there is a God?
A37987And what are these Treasuries and Store- houses of Rain, Snow and Hail, but the Clouds, from whence these Meteors descend?
A37987And what can we imagine this Government of Day and Night to be for but to serve the Necessities of Man?
A37987And who knows not the Vsefulness of Plants as they are serviceable to Food and Physick?
A37987And why doth the Theorist imprison the whole Element within the Earth?
A37987And why were the Particles of the Teeth and Bones of Sea- Animals( which he likewise mentions) not dissevered?
A37987And yet have we no apprehension at all of our continual capering about the Sun?
A37987Are there any among the Vanities( i. e. the Idols) of the Gentiles that can cause Rain?
A37987Are we presently apprehensive of the Earth''s shaking never so little under us?
A37987Art not thou he, O Lord God?
A37987But I ask, why might not these be of Primitive ordering?
A37987But what is this to the changing the very Situation and Posture of the Earth?
A37987But where God and Nature are not sparing, why should we be?
A37987Can a Man perswade himself that the light Trepidation of this Element can be felt, and yet the rapid Circumvolution of it can not?
A37987Can the most hardned Atheist perswade himself that these things were by chance, or from mere Matter moved?
A37987Doth not the Troublesome Existence of these Creatures prove rather a Carelessness in the Divine Management than a Provident Care of the World?
A37987For what is the Sea but that great Heap of Waters which was gather''d together by God''s Omnipotent Fiat at the Creation of the World?
A37987For where should we fix its Throne, but in that Place where there is the original of all Sense and Motion?
A37987Hast thou not poured me out as Milk, and curdled me like Cheese?
A37987He might have said, so many Seas hanging in the Air?
A37987How are those Flames fed?
A37987How came they to escape crushing in their falling down and subsiding, which he supposeth?
A37987How can a Wise Providence be proved from the Existence of such Creatures, as Foxes, Otters, Weesels, Pole- Cats, Rats and Mice?
A37987How curious is the Architecture?
A37987How fine and delicate a Thread doth it spin?
A37987How frequent is David on this Theme, extolling God''s Providence in respect of the Creatures, the Heavens and Earth, Living and Inanimate things?
A37987How is it proved hence that the First Earth had another Situation to the Sun, and had a perpetual Equinox and Spring?
A37987How many Evils and Mischiefs would follow upon it?
A37987How wonderfully artificial is the Spider''s Web or House, as''t is call''d in the Hebrew, Iob 8.14?
A37987If Men were alike in Face as Sheep and some other Animals, what a strange Confusion would be in the World?
A37987If a Man should be ask''d why Bays or Lawrel- leaves rather than others crackle in the Fire?
A37987If it should be asked why the Cock rather than any other Fowl gives warning of the Sun''s appearing, and crows before it rises?
A37987If the Foot shall say, because I am not the Hand, I am not of the Body; is it therefore not of the Body?
A37987If the whole Body were an Eye, where were the hearing?
A37987If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
A37987If then they hold this, I ask why this Motion also which they speak of is not perceived by us?
A37987If this were so, how comes it to pass that the Shells( which he often speaks of) remain still?
A37987If you ask why the Lives of such Men are not always Good; yea, why they do not excel?
A37987It is not without cause that they are thus and thus shap''d, and not otherwise: and whence is this but from a Divine Author?
A37987It may be said, Are there not many Useless and Superfluous Animals in the World?
A37987Just so the Earth turns it self round to the Sun, to roast it self, and who would expect any other thing?
A37987Must we therefore deny that there is any at all?
A37987Now, is it not more likely that the Earth moves than that these vast Bodies move from Place to Place?
A37987Now, whence can this so neat, so commodious, so exact Architecture proceed but from a Divine Director?
A37987Or take it more largely in the Words of Mr. Cowley''s Muse, What senseless Miser by the Gods abhorr''d Would covet more than Cocus doth afford?
A37987Or, is a thing sensible, and yet not the Object of Sense?
A37987Shall an Inanimate Machine be extoll''d as the effect of Art and Invention, and yet shall the Artificer himself be voted to be from no such Principle?
A37987They were not against Physicians, but Pretenders to the Art( and who indeed is not against them?)
A37987This is not to be believ''d, and why therefore do any take the Confidence to assert the Earth''s moving under them when they have no Sense of it?
A37987This is that puzzling Problem which the wise Man starts, How the Bones grow in her that is with child?
A37987Vis Deum Mundum ● ocare?
A37987What are the Heavens in comparison of this Glorious Creature?
A37987What is the Brightest Constellation in respect of the Organiz''d Fabrick of Humane Bodies?
A37987What is the Sun if compar''d with the Rational Soul of Man?
A37987What is the reason( say they) that such great Numbers of these Persons have so little Sense of a God in their Lives?
A37987What tho our shallow Understandings can not guess at the Purpose and Project of Heaven?
A37987What words shall I use, saith † Plutarch, to express sufficiently the Diligence of the Pismires?
A37987When he views the strange Conveyances, the greater and lesser Chanels and Conduits for the Liquors and Juices contained in it?
A37987Whence is it that they are not spent and exhausted?
A37987Whence is there such an Abundance of things made as''t were to support our Luxury?
A37987Wherefore it was St. Augustine''s devout Query, Quis disposuit membra culicis& pulicis?
A37987Who admires not the singular Hand of the Almighty in the Ebbing and Flowing of this huge Mass of Waters?
A37987Who can give Credit to that Romantick Solution of the French Phi ● osopher?
A37987Who can sufficiently admire this when he beholds the Variety of the Structure, the Diversity of the Workmanship?
A37987Who hath disposed and set in order the several Joints and Members of a Gnat or a Flea?
A37987Who hath given them that excellent Contexture of Parts?
A37987Who is not ravish''d with the excellent Shape, Colour and Smell of the Plants and Flowers which a choice Garden is stock''d with?
A37987Who is not sensible that Thunder is the more signal Operation of a Divine Cause, and therefore is so frequently call''d God''s Voice?
A37987Who knoweth not in all th ● se that the Hand of the Lord hath wrought this?
A37987Who made these Beautiful Objects in the World but Beauty it self?
A37987Who therefore can deny that this is more sensible than that?
A37987Why do some of them profess an Indifferency as to Religion, and scarcely acknowledge the Author of it?
A37987Why may we not hold that these Strata were originally so disposed?
A37987Why were they not dissolved?
A37987Yea, how can he be so impudent as to say that Man himself was but a By- blow?
A37987Yea, how come they to be in the very same Figure and Shape that they had at first, and to have no alteration?
A37987Yea, is there not a great Number of Hurtful and Mischievous Creatures on the Earth, and in the Air, and''t is likely in the Waters too?
A37987Yea, why do some endeavour to expel both of them out of the World, and to introduce Atheism, Scepticism and Prophaneness?
A37987how thin and soft a Web doth it weave?
A37987nonne auctorem suum parentémque testatur?
A37987or can the Heavens( of themselves) give Showers?
A37987unde illa luxu ● ia ● quoque instruens copia?
A37987† Quid mirabilius aquis in coelis stantibus?
A37987† Unde h ● ● e innumerabilia oculos, aures,& animam mulcen ● ia?
A37987† Whence comes it to pass, saith Seneca, that there is such a Multitude of Grateful Objects in the Universe, which ravish our Ears, Eyes and Minds?