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4.3 8 The Tojfibility State IV,
finite in Knowledge and in Power: And hence, agree¬
able to the Didoes of Reafui, we conclude the PoJJi-
bility of the R.efurr0m, even in the Gales fuppofcd.
Material Things may change their Forms and
Shapes, may be rd'olyed into the Principles of which
they are formed : But they are not Annihilated,
or reduced to nothing ; nor can they be fp, by any
created Power. God is omnifcient, bis Under Hand-
ing is infinite: Therefore he knows all 'Things whftt-
foever j what they were at any Time, what they
are, and where they are to be found. Tho’ the
Country-man, who comes into the Apothecaries
Shop, cannot find out the Drug he wants; yet the
Apothecary himfelt knows what he has in his Shop,
whence it came, and where k is to be found. And
in a Mingle of many different Seeds, the expert
Gardner cah diftinguifti betwixt Seed and Seed.
Why then may not Omnijcience diftinguifh 'twixt
Dufi andDuft ? Can he, who knows ^Things to
PerfedUoo, be liable to any Miftake about his own
Creatures ? Whofo believes an infinite Underftand-
ing, mull needs own, that no Mafs of Duft is fo
jumbled together , but God perfectly comprehends,
and infallibly knows, how the moft minute Particle,
and every one ot them, is to be match’d. And
therefore he knows, where the Particles of each dead
Body arc; whether in the Earth, Sea, or Air ; how
confus’d foever they ly. And particularly he knows,
where to find the primitive Subftance of the Man-
eater ; howfoever evaporate or reduced, as it were,
into Air or Vapour, by Sweat, or Perfpiration ;
And hpw to feparate the Parts of the Body, that
was eaten, from the Body of the Eater; howfoever
incorporate or made one Body with it: And un-
derftapds, not only hew, but wUnpe, he is to biing