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CHAP. VI.
3. Arg. From the admirable contrivance of Natural things.
3. FROM that excellent Contrivance which there is in all natural things. Both with respect to that Elegance and Beauty which they have in themselves se∣parately considered, and that regular Or∣der and subserviency wherein they stand towards one another; together with the exact fitness and propriety, for the seve∣ral purposes for which they are designed. From all which it may be inferred, that these are the productions of some Wise Agent.
The most Sagacious man is not able to find out any blot or error in this great vo∣lume of the world, as if any thing in it had been an imperfect essay at the first, such as afterwards stood in need of mend∣ing: But all things continue as they were from the Beginning of the Creation.
Tully doth frequently insist upon this, as the most natural result from that beau∣ty and regularity to be observed in the Universe. Esse praestantem aliquam, aeter∣nam{que}