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194 and bring damage to, this beautiful frame of the World. But those things especially would exceed these bounds very often, that are under the command of Encrease and Multiply. Look upon Men, who can deny that by nature we are born faster, than we naturally dye? So that in a few years from two persons a family of a hundred may be propagated; of which in that space not above ten or twenty may dye. Look upon a flock of Sheep; how numerous would the encrease be, if the Shepheard should not yearly choose out and set apart some to the Slaughter? The Birds and Fishes would in a short time fill the Air and Waters, if there were not certain dissentions; and (as it were) warrs amongst themselves, and the endeavours of Men to diminish them. Every age is building of Cities and Towns; and if fire or other wayes of destruction should not interpose; neither this world of ours, nor the o- Rh