as to convince us that there is a God that fram'd them all. I judge this sort of Ar∣guments fetch't from the Frame of Na∣ture, so uncontroulable a Proof of the Existence of God; that I am afraid it was not without Designe, that Des Cartes not only over-look't, but disparaged them. I will not charge the like Intention upon him in his Meditationes de prima Philoso∣phia, that his Country-Man Vaninus was guilty of in his Aeternae providentiae Thea∣trum. But this I dare say, that those he slighted are Solid, Easie, and accommo∣dated to popular Understandings; where∣as those he chose to rely on, are some of them Sophistical, and all of them too Me∣taphysical for every one to understand. Nor did it become any, who paid a Ve∣neration to the Scripture as the Word of God; to represent this kind of Argu∣ments as weak, and infirm, seeing the Holy Ghost hath preceded us in this way of Ratiocination. See Rom. 1.18, 19, 20, 21. Psal. 19.1 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Acts 14.15, 16, 17. and 17.23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28. Job 12.7, 8, 9, 10, &c. Now by viewing the curious Structure of this noble Ma∣chine, the World, how many Convincing Proofs of the Being of God, present