. 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 .. . a Woman{landing before itj and two Doves above it,*pne flying with a Branch of a Tree in itsMouth, another refting upon it. The Figureswhereof, and a learned Difcourfe thereuponout of Falconerim^ may be feen in Kirchers*L, ^ Area Noie, Which Moneys, though theywere coined long after our Saviours Time,and the Divulgation of the Scriptures j yetbeing done by Ethnicks, do fhew
. 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 .. . a Woman{landing before itj and two Doves above it,*pne flying with a Branch of a Tree in itsMouth, another refting upon it. The Figureswhereof, and a learned Difcourfe thereuponout of Falconerim^ may be feen in Kirchers*L, ^ Area Noie, Which Moneys, though theywere coined long after our Saviours Time,and the Divulgation of the Scriptures j yetbeing done by Ethnicks, do fhew that theStory of the Deluge was known, and famous,and generally credited among them, as beingnear the Place where Noah lived and con-verfed after the Flood. HoWBEixIdo not deny, that there wasfuch a particular Flood in Thejfaly^ as theycall DeucalioriSj which happened feven hun-dred and feventy Years, or thereabouts, after- the general Deluge. I acknowledge alfo amore ancient Flood in Attica^ in the Time ofOgyges^ about two hundred and thirty Yearsbefore Deucalions^ by which the Countrywas fo marred, that it lay wafte and uncul-tivated, without Inhabitants, for almoft twohundred Years. Chap. TAB I pajid I Jlic twv ancUnt^ipa^mian C^nfns taken cnit ofOctuv- Talumievl it nurtxmoiApcunt^fuilieuUL-
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