Revelation examined with candour : or, A fair enquiry into the sense and use of the several revelations expressly declared, or sufficiently implied, to be given to mankind from the creation, as they are found in the Bible . D I s- 238 Revelation Examind> & Dissertation XIV, Of other tefti monies relating to the deluge. S^SPfl HAVE, in the preceding differ- Hfv^SS tation, defignediy omitted a tcfti- ||| .fjJP mony from Berofus, cited by !liSi§% Sir Walter Rakfah. (b. 1. c. 7.) inaimuch as the book now extant under the name of that writer, is juftly luppoied to be corrupted ; nor have I be
Revelation examined with candour : or, A fair enquiry into the sense and use of the several revelations expressly declared, or sufficiently implied, to be given to mankind from the creation, as they are found in the Bible . D I s- 238 Revelation Examind> & Dissertation XIV, Of other tefti monies relating to the deluge. S^SPfl HAVE, in the preceding differ- Hfv^SS tation, defignediy omitted a tcfti- ||| .fjJP mony from Berofus, cited by !liSi§% Sir Walter Rakfah. (b. 1. c. 7.) inaimuch as the book now extant under the name of that writer, is juftly luppoied to be corrupted ; nor have I been able to learn upon what authority that great man judged this paffage genuine ; but that he efteemed it fuch, I think is evident, fromhis quoting it without any mark or iuipicionof reproach. For foon after he hath citedit, he adds thefe words, But Berojhs (who, after Mojes, was one of the mollu anticnt, however he hath been fince de- formed and corrupted) doth, in the iub- fiance of all, agree with Mofes as touch- ing Revelation Examind, &c. 239 ing the general flood, taking from thencethe beginning of his hiftory in thefewords ; — Before that famous dejlrutiionof waters by which the world univerjalperi/bed: witnefling withal, that Noahwith his
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