. 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 .. . ^£^^i2^ ^2^^j# ^^v^3^ \;^^2^%S:i^^l^^i^^^2d DISCOURSE I. Of the Primitive Chaos andCreation of the N the Firft Edition of thisTreatife, this Difcourfe con-cerning the Pri?mtive Chaosand Creation of the World,and that other concerning theVeftru^fion thereof by the Waters of the Ge-neral Deluge^ in the Days of Noah^ werebrought in by way of Digreflfion ; becaufe Idefigned no


. 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 .. . ^£^^i2^ ^2^^j# ^^v^3^ \;^^2^%S:i^^l^^i^^^2d DISCOURSE I. Of the Primitive Chaos andCreation of the N the Firft Edition of thisTreatife, this Difcourfe con-cerning the Pri?mtive Chaosand Creation of the World,and that other concerning theVeftru^fion thereof by the Waters of the Ge-neral Deluge^ in the Days of Noah^ werebrought in by way of Digreflfion ; becaufe Idefigned not at firil to treat of them, but onlyof the Conflagration or DiJJolution of the Worldby Fire; but was afterwards, when I hadmade a confiderable Progrefs in the Diffoluytion^ at the Inftance of iome Friends, becaufeof their Relation to my Subje(5t, prevailedupon to fay fomething of them. But nowthat I am at Liberty fo to do, I iliall nothandle them any more by the by, but make B them Of the Chaos them fubftantial Parts of my Book, and dif-pofe them, as is mod natural, according totheir Priority and Pofleriority in Order ofTime, beginning with the Chaos and Creation, HAP. I.


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