2 $ Consequences of the Deluge.

or at least, Stones cast in some Animal Mold-Both parts have strong Arguments and P a 'trons. I sliall not balance Authorities, b ut:only consider and weigh Arguments.

Those lor the latter part, wherewithsliall begin, are.

First, Because it seems contrary to tb$great Wisdom of Nature, which is obscW a 'ble in all its Works and Productions, to dt'sign every thing to a determinate end , an ator the attaining that end, make use of fu c ‘’ways, as are most agreeable to Man’s j^ase 11 ’that these prettily soaped Bodies, should ha^all those curious Figures and Contrivance(which many of them, are formed and a 'domed with) generated or wrought by iPlajiic Ferine, for no higher end, than osltyto exhibite such a form. This is Mr.ffotk*Argumentation. To which Dr. Plot asssevers, That the end. of such Proddlions ,to leautifie the World with those Varieties 'and that this is no mqre repugnant to the P 1 ' 11 'dence of Nature, thin is the production % ‘mojl Flowers, Tulips , Anemones-, &c- %which we know as little use of, as of for^Stones\ But hereto we may reply, r J*h atFlowers, are .for the Ornament of a Bods ’that hath seme degree of life in it: a Veg e 'taiive Soul, whereby it performs the acti 01 ?of Nutrition, Auction and Generation ; wse .j