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Pag 5 lin 7- <undecipherable> released & confirmed & by these <undecipherable> doth remiss release & confirm unto the said Cath. Barton (in her actuall possession now Bring by virtue of a Bargain - - - - & By force of the statute made for transferring of uses into possession) the said Office of Keeper & the custody of the said Park &c

Philosophy is not to <undecipherable>

For Miracles are so called not because they are the works of God But because they happen seldom & for that reason create wonder. If they should happen constantly according to certain laws inprest <undecipherable> upon the nature of things, they

                                                or miracles

would be no longer wonders^but might be considered in Philosophy as a part of the Phenomena of Nature [notwithstanding their being the effects of Gods laws impressed upon Nature By the powers of God] notwithstanding that the cause of their causes might be unknown to us. Any Occult qualities have been exploded not be because their causes are unknown to us but Because <undecipherable> By giving that name of occult gives to the specific qualities of things, <undecipherable> <undecipherable> a stop has been put to all inquiry into the causes as if they could not be known because <undecipherable the great Philosopher Aristotel <undecipherable> was able to find <undecipherable>

    alters &                                                               miracles & occult qualities

Leibnitz ^ enlarges the signification of the words ^ that he may make use of them in exploding (I do not say confusing) them <undecipherable> Philosophy of Isaac Newton so far as if reliable to the argument for proving a Deity from the phenomena of nature. And as the