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of the World.

%ht and activity, and consequently the...»lQ n of the Celestial Vortex about it growing^ore weak, languid, and unable to resist thej^gorous incroaehments of the neighbouring°rtex of the Sun ; it was at last drawn in,^d wholly absorpt by it, and forced to com-Wy with its motion, and make one in theX£*ire of the Sun’s Satellites. This wholehypothesis 1 do utterly disallow and reject,pother did the Author himself (st we maybelieve him ) think it true, that the Earththus generated. For he faith, Quinimores naturales melius explicandas, earumCai *sas alt/its hie re pet am quam ipfas unquarne xt/tiffe ex/si/mem. Non enim dub/urn eff >pin mundus al initio tuerit creatus cumtf nni fua perfeftione , ita ut in eo V Sol, &

Terra, V Luna, & Stella extiterint .

Tsoc fides Christiana nos docet ; hbeque etiamtat io natural is plane perfuadet. Attendendotyt 'm ad immenjam Dei potentiam , non pojjfu-^us existimare ilium unquarn quidquam fecifse,Pod non omnibus ju'/s numeris fuerit abjolutum.^Hat is, Moreover, for the better explicating°f Natural Things, I shall bring them fromhigher or more remote Causes than I think they^er had. For there is no doubt , but the^orld ivas originally created in its full per-feftion, so that in it were contained both Sunq>, d Alcon, and Earth and Stars, &c. For this

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