. Three physico-theological discourses : concerning: I. The primitive chaos and creation of the world ; II. The general deluge, its causes and effects ; III. The dissolution of the world and future conflagration .. . r j fo that the Centers of Magnitudeand Gravity concurr in one. 3. T HE Continents are not of exactly e-qual and level Supoficief or Convexity. Forthen, the Parts lubje6t to the Courfe of theSun, called the Torrid Zone^ would havebeen, as the Ancients fancied them, unha-bitable for Heat and Drought. But there arehuge Ridges and extended Chains of loftyMountains dire(5ted, for the
. Three physico-theological discourses : concerning: I. The primitive chaos and creation of the world ; II. The general deluge, its causes and effects ; III. The dissolution of the world and future conflagration .. . r j fo that the Centers of Magnitudeand Gravity concurr in one. 3. T HE Continents are not of exactly e-qual and level Supoficief or Convexity. Forthen, the Parts lubje6t to the Courfe of theSun, called the Torrid Zone^ would havebeen, as the Ancients fancied them, unha-bitable for Heat and Drought. But there arehuge Ridges and extended Chains of loftyMountains dire(5ted, for the moft part, torun Eaft and Weft; by which means, theygive free Admittance and Pa0age to the Va-pours, brought in by the Winds from theAtkntki and Pactfich Oceans; but flop andinhibit their Excurfions to the North andSouth, either condenfing them upon theirSides into Water, by a kind of external De-ftillation; or by ftreightning and conftipa-ting of them, compelling them to gather intoDrops, and defcend down in Rain. These are great things, and worthy theCare, Diredion, and Difpofal of the Greatand Wife Creator, and Governor of allthings: And, we fee, they are accordinglyexcellently ordered and provided by Chap. Ch A P. IV. Of the Creation of Animals; fomeQueflions refohed. S to the firft Creation of Ani-mals, I have already propofedtwo Opinions, both confonantor reconcileable to the Scri-ptures. I. That God Almighty did at firft createthe Seeds of all Animals, (that is, the Ani-mals themfelves in little) and difpersd themover the fuperficial Part of the Land andPower to thofe Elements to
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