ing able to ſubſiſt of themſelves, before the Time of Procreation returns again, the conjugal Bond diſſolves of itſelf, and they are at Liberty; 'till Hymen, at his uſual Anniverſary Seaſon, ſummons them again to chuſe new Mates. Wherein one cannot but admire the Wiſdom of the great Creator, who having given to Man an Ability to lay up for the future, as well as ſupply the preſent Neceſſity, hath made it neceſſary, that Society of Man and Wife ſhould be more laſting than of Male and Female amongſt other Creatures; that ſo their Induſtry might be encouraged, and their Intereſt better united, to make Proviſion, and lay up up Goods for their common Iſſue, which uncertain Mixture, or eaſy and frequent Solutions of conjugal Society would mightily diſturb."
The ſame Love of Truth, which has made me faithfully exhibit this Objection, induces me to accompany it with ſome Remarks, if not to refute, at leaſt to throw ſome Light upon it.
1. I muſt in the firſt place obſerve, that Moral Proofs are of no great Force in phy-
