. 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 .. . Bif tht Grttk infcrt^tiaTis t/u^t/ rve^^ fhunp. C H A P. II. Of the Caufes of the Deluge^ HAT were the inftrumentalCaufes or Means of the Flood ?Whether was it effeded by na-tural or fupernatural Meansonly ? Whether was Gx> d nofarther concerned in it, thanin- fo ordering Second Caufes at firft, as ofthemfelves neceffarily to bring it in atfuch atinie ? First, Thofe that hold t
. 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 .. . Bif tht Grttk infcrt^tiaTis t/u^t/ rve^^ fhunp. C H A P. II. Of the Caufes of the Deluge^ HAT were the inftrumentalCaufes or Means of the Flood ?Whether was it effeded by na-tural or fupernatural Meansonly ? Whether was Gx> d nofarther concerned in it, thanin- fo ordering Second Caufes at firft, as ofthemfelves neceffarily to bring it in atfuch atinie ? First, Thofe that hold this Deluge wasaltogether miraculous, and that God Al-mighty created Waters on purpofe to fervethis Occafion, and, when they had done theirWork, deftroyd them again, difpatchd theBufinefs, and loofe or cut the Knot in a fewWords. And yet this Hypothejif is not foabfurd and precarious, as at firft Sight it mayfeem to be : For the World being akeadyfull, there needed not, nor indeed could beany Creation of Water out of nothing, butonly a Tranfmutation of fome other Bodyinto Water. Now, if we grant all NaturalBodies, even the Elements themfelves, to bemutually tranfmutable, as few Men doubt,and fome think they can demonftrate, whymight not the Divine Power and
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