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74 impious also, if you shall rightly consider it. For (as you know) there is an eternal Mind which we call God, which Rules, Orders and Governs the lasting Orbs of Heaven; the different courses of the Stars; the interchangeable variations of the Elements; and (in a word) all things whatsoever, as well above as below us. Suppose you that any Chance or Fortune bare rule in this beautifull Body of the World? Or that humane affairs are hurried on, and blended together by a rash and blind impetuosity? I know you do not believe it; nor doth any other, who hath any thing (not to say) of Wisdom, but Sobriety. For it is the Voice of Nature, I say of Nature, and wheresoever you shall turne your Eye or Mind: Things Mortal and Immortal, Superiour and Inferiour, Animate or Inanimate, they all speak out and proclaim, that there is something above us, which hath created Rh