. 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 .. . with uncertain Conje-ctures, I Ihall content myfelf to have faid ingenera], that it may rationally be fuppoicd,there were then great Mutations and Altera-tions made in the fuperficiai Part of the Earth : p. 192. 122 Confequences, &c. Earth; but what they were, though we mayguefs, yet can we have no certain Know-ledge of: And for Particulars, referr the Cu-rious to him. One mahgnan
. 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 .. . with uncertain Conje-ctures, I Ihall content myfelf to have faid ingenera], that it may rationally be fuppoicd,there were then great Mutations and Altera-tions made in the fuperficiai Part of the Earth : p. 192. 122 Confequences, &c. Earth; but what they were, though we mayguefs, yet can we have no certain Know-ledge of: And for Particulars, referr the Cu-rious to him. One mahgnant Efifed it had upon Man-kind, and probably upon other Animals too,in fliortning their Age, or the Duration oftheir Lives; which I have touched before,and (hewn, that this Diminution of Age isto be attributed either to the Change of theTemperature of the Air, as to Salubrity, orEquality, (fudden aftd frequent Changes ofWeather having a very bad Influence uponthe Age of Man in ai3breviating of it, as Icould eafily prove) or elfe to the Deteriorityof the Diet ,• or to both thefe Caufes. But, how the Flood fliould induce or occafionfuch a Change in the Air, and Productionsof the Earth, I do not Chap. ii iM ;ji iji iji;;. ij.;;; iji i%i ij; ij; .j; w ijj ij- jji ij- ij; rli rK •}• -I- •;• •!• •;• •;• •!• -I- ?£• •;• S- •> •{•
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