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If with the Microscope you examine the powder of any rotten wood what∣soever, you will find a prodigious num∣ber of Vermicles, some armed with Horns, some set out as it were with Wings, and others not unlike those Worms that have many Feet; their Eyes also you will discern like black Points, and that they have a long
Snout; so that it may appear, Almighty God hath manifested his own wonder∣ful Power, not only in the greatest Bo∣dies of the World, but in the smallest, even in those Animals that are not to be discerned by the sharpest sight, having furnished every one of them with such Members, as without which they could neither move themselves, nor exercise any vital Actions. What a little Liver, little Stomack, little Heart, little Nerves, and Gristles, must there go to the making of such invisible Cor∣puscles! The least Creature that we can see without the the help of Art, is a Mite, it resembling a little white Punctum or Point, but view it with a Microscope, and it appears to us a rough hairy Creature, like a Bear.