STUDY IV. 227 



23. Which I have referved which I have prepared againft 



againft the time of trouble, the time of the adverfary, and 



againft the day of battle and for the day of battle and war ? 

 war ? 



The Reader, I flatter myfelf, will not be dif- 

 pleafed at my having deviated fomewhat from my 

 fubjeft, that I might exhibit to him the agreement 

 between my hypothefis and the traditions of the 

 Holy Scriptures i and efpecially between it and 

 thofe, though not free from obfcurity, of a Book, 

 perhaps, the moft ancient that exifts. Our moft 

 learned Theologians agree in thinking, that Job 

 wrote prior to Mofes, Whether this be the cafe 

 or not, furely no one ever painted Nature with 

 greater fublimity. 



We may, farther, arrive at complete aflurance 

 of the general effed of the polar effufions on the 

 Ocean, from the particular effecfts of the icy effu- 

 fions of mountains, on the lakes and rivers of the 

 Continent. I fhall here relate fome examples of 

 thefe laft; for the human mind, from it's natural 

 weaknefs, loves to particularize all the objects of 

 it's ftudies. And this is the reafon why it appre- 

 hends, much more quickly, the laws of Nature, 

 in fmall objeds, than in thofe which are great. 



CL 2 AdJifoity 



