An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches

And let unbiased Reason judge, Whether if a Rock should be held up in the Air, if God continue the natural Gravity of it, with all the rest of the frame of Nature, could not that Rock fall, without another motion of God which is without any second Cause, to thrust it down? If He continue the nature of Fire, was it not a greater Miracle, that it burnt not the three Witnesses, Dan. 3. than to have burnt them, or than its ordinary Action? Why else should there need ten thousand fold more natural Power to hold up the said Rock, or to quench a City on fire, or to stop a River, or the Winds; than to move them supposing natural Causes, if there need an Infinite Power moreover to the act, and none to the cessation? And by this Rule it would follow, that all Motion in the World is supernatural: For if God cause it ut sons naturae, he causeth it in the natural course: if he do not, it's all supernatural and miraculous.

And let unbyassed Reason judge, Whether if a Rock should be held up in the Air, if God con•inue the natural Gravity of it, with all the rest of the frame of Nature, could not that Rock fall, without another motion of God which is without any second Cause, to thrust it down? If He continue the nature of Fire, was it not a greater Miracle, that it burnt not the three Witnesses, Dan. 3. than to have burnt them, or than its ordinary Action? Why else should there need ten thousand fold more natural Power to hold up the said Rock, or to quench a City on fire, or to stop a River, or the Winds; than to move them supposing natural Causes, if there need an Infinite Power moreover to the act, and none to the cessation? And by this Rule it would follow, that all Motion in the World is supernatural: For if God cause it ut sons naturae, he causeth it in the natural course: if he do not, it's all supernatural and miraculous.

Moreover, if all this satisfy not Disputes, if it be worth the Cost, they may try the Case thus: Supposing that God hath told no man his Secrets, when he will immediately move any thing without second Causes, and that no second Causes, nor his own Operation by them can move any thing without another immediate Motion, Let them cut down the Pillars, or undermine their Houses, and say that by mere natural Causes the House cannot fall: Let them set fire on their Houses, and say that by mere natural Causes they cannot be burnt: Let them drink Poison, and say, By mere natural Causes it cannot hurt us: Or let them cut their Flesh, &c. For God never told them,