fhall find much greater demonftra tions thereof, if we confider that . thofe Motions are not at random, in inconvenient Lines and Orbs, but fuch, as fhew wife Defign and Couns fel. I fhall here fpecifie but two Examples, because I fhall have occafion to fay more of this matter hereafter. One is, That all the Planets should (when their Motions were impreft upon them) have their Directions or Tendencies given, not in Lines tending from the Cen ter to the Circumference or very Obliquely, but Perpendicular to the Radii. The other is, That the Motions and Orbits of the Planets flrouuld not interfere with one another, but tend one and the fame way, from Weft to Eaft, and lie in Planes but little inclined to one another, or when inclin'd, that it should be very beneficially fo, as I Shall ₹ as fhall hereafter fhew. These and many other Instances and in a word, that every Planet fhould have as many, and various Motions, and those as regular, and well contrived and ordered, the World and its Inhabitants have occafion for, what could all this be but the Work of a wife and kind, as well as omnipotent CREATOR, and ORDERER of the World's Affairs? a Work which is as plain a Signal of GOD, as that of a Clock, or other Machine is of Man. Thus Tully's Stoick (1) ar gues our prefent cafe from the Shepherd at Actium, when from the top of an Hill he happened first to fee a Ship failing in the Sea, he was for a while in great amazement and sur 31 (1) De Nat. Deor. L. 2. c. 35. F 4 · prize prize to see such a moving inanimate Body, and could not imagine of what a Nature it was poffible it should be, until he perceived, by fome tokens, that it was made and managed by Man. So, faith he, the Philofophers ought to have done, if haply they had any doubts at the first view of the World: afterwards when they fhould be bold its determined and equal Motions, and all things managed by established or ders, and with immutable conftancy; they ought then to understand that there is not only fome Inhabiter in this heavenly, this diving House, but also some Ruler, and Moderator, and in a manner, Architect of fo great a Work, Jo noble a Perfor mance. This Conclufion is so natural, fo cogent, that any thing but ftupid prejudiced Blockheads (as thofe Phi fofophers were) would have naturally and cafily made it. But now, faith the the Stoick (2), they seem to me not fo much as to have any fufpicion of the wonderfulness of the things of the Heavens or the Earth. And great reafon the Sto fck had for his furmife. Fot fo manie feft a Demonftration of a Deity are the Motions of the Heavens and Earth, that if men do not fee them, it is å fign of great stupidity, and if they will not fee, and be convinced by them, it is as plain a fign of their pres judice and perverfenels, as will fa ther appear by confidering what an incompamble provision is made for the World's good, by the particular Motions which are given to the Earth and Heavens, namely the Diurnal and Periodical Motions. Spe Liqust and grads kui seda ensyoo ol નવુ ગd. 8. 36 (2) 0 CHAP. CHAP. III, Of the Diurnal MOTION of all the Several Globes, A འ S to the Diurnal Motion, there is great probability that our Earth, and all the Heavenly Bodies have a Rotation round their feveral Axes; not all performed indeed in the fame space, or length of time, but fome in longer, some in shorter times; each Time making what we call a Day in those several Globes, equivalent, although not equal, to the circumvolution of our Earth in 24 hours. This diurnal Rotation is visible in many of the Heavenly Globes, and highly probable in our own. In the Sun it is very manifeft from the equa ble |