of the Shells and Bones of Fishes, but ratkttof such as were absolutely new and differ ffrom any frequently fe en or belonging to A# 1 'trials i which serve rather to amuse than deliwhim. But xly, we find in the Earth not otyStones formed in imitation of Shells ; but r^Shells , Teeth and Bones of Fishes,or Bodiesy.like them , that they are not to he dist ingulf (by Figure , Texture, Colour, Weight, or $other Accident, Mow what greater Arguifd' can the Atheist desire to prove/hat theSh$of Fishes were never designed by any provUfEfficient for their Defence, or their Bones ffj,

• the sustaining of their Bodies ,but that the ffand Shell containing it, and the Bones fuftd*ing it, did casually concur ; than that tFfishould be red Shells produced without any Ftin them, and that in dry places where no F!ever did or could breed, or indeed live, and fal Fish-bones, where there never was nor c$*beany Fish,

Deth it not than concern a Divine to be ^quaint ed with this Objettion against the Bod ! f I-of Animals being the effeds of Counsel and $ \sign, and provided with an anjwer to it. imy part I must needs confess that this Aff> tment weighs so with me, whether from that 1 *nate Psoiepfis my self, and / think most o(FMen have of the Prudence of Mature inOperations, or from mine own observing thatail other things,it ails for ends , that it is alF' * /„/«"'