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The Instinct Of Brutes And Insects Can Be The Effect Of Nothing Else Than The Wisdom And Skill Of A Powerful Ever-living Agent.

This Principle Of Nature Being Very Remote From The Conceptions Of Philosophers, I Forbore To Describe It In That Book, Least I Should Be Accounted An Extravagant Freak And So Prejudice My Readers Against All Those Things Which Were The Main Designe Of The Book.

What The Latins Have Done In This Text (1 John V, 7) The Greeks Have Done To Paul (1 Tim. Iii, 16). They Now Read, "great Is The Mystery Of Godliness; God Manifest In The Flesh"; Whereas All The Churches For The First Four Or Five Hundred Years, And The Authors Of All The Ancient Versions, Jerome As Well As The Rest, Read, "great Is The Mystery Of Godliness, Which Was Manifest In The Flesh." Our English Version Makes It Yet A Little Stronger. It Reads, "great Is The Mystery Of Godliness: God Was Manifest In The Flesh."

God Is Able To Create Particles Of Matter Of Several Sizes And Figures And Perhaps Of Different Densities And Forces, And Thereby To Vary The Laws Of Nature, And Make Worlds Of Several Sorts In Several Parts Of The Universe.

God Who Gave Animals Self Motion Beyond Our Understanding Is Without Doubt Able To Implant Other Principles Of Motion In Bodies [which] We May Understand As Little. Some Would Readily Grant This May Be A Spiritual One; Yet A Mechanical One Might Be Showne, Did Not I Think It Better To Pass It By.