. The sacred theory of the earth : containing an account of the original of the earth, and of all the general changes which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo, till the consummation of all things . C O N-1. CONTENTS OF THE CHAPTERS- T The Third Book. CHAP. I. H E Introduction; with the Contents and Or-der of this Treatife Page t CHAP. II. *tbe true State of the g)ueftion is proposed. ictisthe general Dcffrine of the Antients, that theprefentWorlds or the prefent Frame of Nature, is mutableand perifiable -, to which the facred Books agree :And natural Keafon can alledge nothing againft
. The sacred theory of the earth : containing an account of the original of the earth, and of all the general changes which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo, till the consummation of all things . C O N-1. CONTENTS OF THE CHAPTERS- T The Third Book. CHAP. I. H E Introduction; with the Contents and Or-der of this Treatife Page t CHAP. II. *tbe true State of the g)ueftion is proposed. ictisthe general Dcffrine of the Antients, that theprefentWorlds or the prefent Frame of Nature, is mutableand perifiable -, to which the facred Books agree :And natural Keafon can alledge nothing againft it 7 CHAP. III. Zhat the World will be defiroyed by Fire, is theDotJrine of the Antients, efpeciaUy of the the fame Dofirine is more antient than theGreeks, and derivdfrom the Barbarick Philofophy ;and that probably from Noah, the Father of all tra* dttionan The CONTENTS. ditionary Learning. the fame Doctrine exprefly au-thorized by Revelation, and inrolled into the SacredCanon 19 CHAP. IV. Concerning the time of the Conflagration, and theEnd of the IVorld. What the Aflronomers fay uponthis Subject, and upon what they ground their Calcu-lations, the true Notion of the Great Tear, cr ofthe Plat
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