. 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 .. . ck, which might endure theFire, and another of Stone, which wouldrefift the Watery and upon them engravedhis Aftronomical Obfervations, that fo theymight remain to Pofterity: And one of thefePillars, he faith, continued in Syria until hisDays. Whether this Relation be true or nor^it may be thence colleded, that this was anuniverfal Opinion, received by Tradition,both among Jews an
. 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 .. . ck, which might endure theFire, and another of Stone, which wouldrefift the Watery and upon them engravedhis Aftronomical Obfervations, that fo theymight remain to Pofterity: And one of thefePillars, he faith, continued in Syria until hisDays. Whether this Relation be true or nor^it may be thence colleded, that this was anuniverfal Opinion, received by Tradition,both among Jews and Gentiles, That theWorld fiiouid one Day be confumed by may be proved by good Authority, that the of the World. the ancient Gauls^ Chald^anf^ and Indians-^had this Tradition among them ; whichthey could not receive from the Greel Phi-loibphers or Poets, with whom they had noIntercourfe j but it muft, in all Probability,be derived down to both from the fameFountain and Original ; that is, from thefirft Reftorers of Mankind, Noah^ and hisSons. I N o w proceed to the Third Particularpropofed in the Beginning ,• that is, to giveAnfwcr to the fcveral Qucftions concerningthe Dilfolution of the World. 337. Ch A P. Chap, V. The fir ft Quejiion concerning the World sDiffolution^ Whether there he any thingin Nature that way probably caujeor argue a future Diffolution ? Threeprobable M^ans propounded and dif-cuffed, S E C T» I. The Waters again naturally overfloWing andcovering the Earth* ^^mUE firft Queflion is. Whether^& rp PSS? ^here be any thing in Nature,^^^j^^ which may prove and demon*§^^5^ (Irate, or probably argue and in-ferr a future Diffolution ? To which I an-fwer. That I think there is nothing in Na-ture which doth necelfarily demonftrate a fu-ture Diffolution: But that Pofition of thePeripatetick Schools may, for ought I know^be true Philofophyj Pofito ordinario Dei con^curfu mundm pojjet durare in teternmn, Sup^pofing the ordinary Concourfe of God [with fe-cond
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