Though a System of Exhalation, Dilation, and Extension, things which the Ancients founded the Doctrine of Winds upon, be not my direct Business; yet it cannot but be needful to the present Design to Note, that the Difference in the Opinions of the Ancients, about the Nature and Original of Winds, is a Leading Step to one Assertion which I have advanc'd in all that I have said with Relation to Winds, _viz._ That there seems to be more of God in the whole Appearance, than in any other Part of Operating Nature. Nor do I think I need explain my self very far in this Notion: I allow the high Original of Nature to be the Great Author of all her Actings, and by the strict Rein of his Providence, is the Continual and Exact Guide of her Executive Power; but still 'tis plain that in Some of the Principal Parts of Nature she is Naked to our Eye, Things appear both in their Causes and Consequences, Demonstration gives its Assistance, and finishes our further Enquiries: for we never enquire after God in those Works of Nature which depending upon the Course of Things are plain and demonstrative; but where we find Nature defective in her Discovery, where we see Effects but cannot reach their Causes; there 'tis most just, and Nature her self seems to direct us to it, to end the rational Enquiry, and resolve it into Speculation: Nature plainly refers us beyond her Self, to the Mighty Hand of Infinite Power, the Author of Nature, and Original of all Causes. Among these Arcana of the Sovereign Oeconomy, the Winds are laid as far back as any. Those Ancient Men of Genius who rifled Nature by the Torch-Light of Reason even to her very Nudities, have been run a-ground in this unknown Channel; the Wind has blown out the Candle of Reason, and left them all in the Dark. _Aristotle_, in his Problems, Sect. 23. calls the Wind _Aeris Impulsum_. _Seneca_ says, _Ventus est Aer Fluens_. The _Stoicks_ held it, _Motum aut Fluxionem Aeris_. Mr. _Hobs_, Air mov'd in a direct or undulating Motion. Fournier, _Le Vent et un Movement Agitation de l'Air Causi par des Exhalations et Vapours_. The Moderns, a Hot and Dry Exhalation repuls'd by Antiperistasis; _Des Cartes_ defines it, _Venti Nihil sunt nisi Moti & Dilati Vapores_. And various other Opinions are very judiciously collected by the Learned Mr. _Bohun_ in his Treatise of the Origin and Properties of Wind, P. 7. and concludes, '_That no one Hypothesis, how Comprehensive soever, has yet been able to resolve all the Incident Phenomena of Winds_. Bohun _of Winds_, P. 9. This is what I quote them for, and this is all my Argument demands; the deepest Search into the Region of Cause and Consequence, has found out just enough to leave the wisest Philosopher in the dark, to bewilder his Head, and drown his Understanding. You raise a Storm in Nature by the very Inquiry; and at last, to be rid of you, she confesses the Truth, and tells you, _It is not in Me, you must go Home and ask my Father_.