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A58184	Three physico-theological discourses ... wherein are largely discussed the production and use of mountains, the original of fountains, of formed stones, and sea-fishes bones and shells found in the earth, the effects of particular floods and inundations of the sea, the eruptions of vulcano's, the nature and causes of earthquakes : with an historical account of those two late remarkable ones in Jamaica and England ... / by John Ray ...	Ray, John, 1627-1705.	1693 (1693)	Wing R409; ESTC R14140	184,285	437

to reconcile the Eternity of Punishments with the Justice and Goodness of God this second part of the Tradition had need be well back'd by Divine Authority to make it credible and current among Men. As for the Last tho' I meddle not with it in this Treatise yet I will take leave to say so much concerning it That I think those who held Sacrificing to have been a positive Command of God and to have had its Original from Divine Institution have the better reason on their side For that it is no eternal and indispensable Law of Nature is clear in that our Saviour abolished it And many of the Ancient Fathers look upon Sacrificing as so unreasonable a Service that therefore they thought God commanded it not to the Primitive Patriarchs and though he did command it to the Iews yet he did it only in condescension to their weakness because they had been used to such Services and also the Nations round about them to restrain them from Idolatry and Sacrificing to strange Gods Origen Homil. 17 in Numer Deus sicut per alium Prophetam dicit non mandiscat carnes taurorum nec sanguinem hircorum potat Et etiam ut alibi scriptum est Quia non mundavi tibi de Sacrificiis vel victimis in die qua deduxi te de terra Aegypti Sed Moyses hoec ad diuritiem cordis eorum pro consuetudine pessima qua imbuti fuerant in Aegypto mandavit e●s ut qui abstinere se non possent ab immolando Deo saltem non Daemoniis immolarent Other Quotations to this purpose may be seen in Dr Outram De Sacrificiis Indeed it seems absurd to think or believe that God should take any pleasure in the slaughter of innocent Beasts or in the Fume and Nido● of burnt Flesh or Fat Nor doth the reason these Fathers alledge of the Institution of Sacrifices or injoyning them to the Iews satisfie whatever truth there may be in it For it is clear that the main end and design of God in institutiing of them was for Types and Adumbrations of that great Sacrifice of Christ to be offered upon the Cross for the expiation of sin and consequently it is probable that those also that were offered by the Ancient Patriarchs before the Law had their Original from some Divine Command or Revelation and the like reason of their Institution in reference to Christ. But to leave that I have in this Edition removed one subject of Apology and added another so that there still remain as many things to be excused or pleaded for They are First Writing so much for which some perchance may censure me I am not ignorant that Men as they are mutable so they love change and affect variety of Authors as well as Books Satiety even of the best things is apt to creep upon us He that writes much let him write never so well shall experience that has last Books though nothing inferiour to his first will not find equal acceptance But for 〈◊〉 own part tho' in general I may be thought to have written too much yet is it but little that I have wr●tten relating to Divinity It were a good Rule to be observed both by Writer and Reader Not how much but how well He that cannot write well had better spa●e his 〈◊〉 and not write at all Neither●●s he to be thought to write well who though h● hath some good things thin set and dispersed yet ●n●●mbers and accloys the Reader with a deal of useless and impertinent stuff On the contrary he that writes well cannot 〈◊〉 too much For as Pliny the younge● saith well Vt aliae bonae res it a bo●ms L●ber eò melior est quisque quo major As other good Things so a good Book the bigger it is the better is it which holds as well of the Number as Magnitude of Books Secondly Being too hasty in huddling up and tumbling out of Books wherein I confess I cannot wholly acquit my self of blame I know well that the longer a Book lies by me the perfecter it becomes Something occurs every day in Reading or Thinking either to add or to correct and alter for the better But should I defer the Edition till the Work were absolutely perfect I might wait all my Life-time and leave it to be published by my Executors Now my Age minding me of the approach of Death and Posthumous Pieces generally proving inferiour to those put out by the Authors in their Life-time I need no other excuse for my hast in publishing what I write Yet I shall further add in extenuation of the fault if it be one that however hasty and precipitate I am in writing my Books are but small so that if they be worthless the Purchase is not great nor the Expence of Time wasted in the perusal of them very considerable Yet is not the worth of a Book always answerable to its bulk But on the contrary 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is usually esteemed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thirdly The last thing for which I had need to Apologize is the rendring the former Edition of this Treatise worthless by making large Additions to this latter in excuse whereof I have no more to say than I have already written in an Advertisement to the Reader premised to my Discourse concerning the Wisdom of God to which therefore I refer those who desire satisfaction in this particular Place this Half-sheet next after p. 132 before the 3 Plates REflecting upon the length of this Discourse concerning the Original of these Bodies I am suspicious that the vulgar and inconsiderate Reader will be ready to demand What needs all this ado To what purpose so many words about so trivial a Subject What reference hath the consideration of Shells and Bones of Fishes petrified to Divinity Wherefore I shall in a few words shew the great importance of this Disquisition concerning formed Stones and the Determination of their Original For 1st If we adhere to their Opinions who hold them to have been original Productions of Nature in imitation only of the Shells and Bones of Fishes We put a Weapon into the Atheists hands affording him a strong Argument to prove that even Animals themselves are casual Productions and not the effects of Counsel or Design For to what end are these Bodies curiously figured and adorned if for no other but to exhibit such a Form for the Ornament of the Vniverse or to gratifie the Curiosity of Man these are but general ends whereas the parts of every Species of Body are formed and fitted to the particular Vses and Conveniences of that Body And if Nature would delineate or imprint Figures upon Bodies only to be Spectacles to Man one would think it should not have made choice of those of the Shells and Bones of Fishes but rather of such as were absolutely new and different from any frequently seen or belonging to Animals which serve rather to amuse than