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lieve the coming of Chrift and a latter judgment ; yet your 

 ancient Enoch, whom you fuppofe was the feventh from A- 

 dam, tells you this plainly, and in fo many words, long ago. 

 And indeed the quotation is, word for word the fame, in 

 the fecond chapter of the book. 



All that is material to fay further concerning the book 

 of Enoch is, that it is a Gnoftic book, containing the age 

 of the Emims, Anakims, and Egregores, fuppofed depen- 

 dents of the fons of God, when they fell in love with the 

 daughters of men, and had fons who were giants. Thefe 

 giants do not feem to have been fo charitable to the fons 

 and daughters of men, as their fathers had been. For, firft, 

 they began to eat all the beafts of the earth, they then fell 

 upon the birds and iifhes, and ate them alfo ; their hunger 

 being not yet fatisfied, they ate all the corn, all men's la- 

 bour, all the trees and buflies, and, not content yet, they fell 

 to eating the men themfelves. The men (like our modern 

 failors with the favages) were not afraid of dying, but very 

 much fo of being eaten after death. At length they cry to God 

 againft the wrongs the giants had done them, and God fends 

 a flood which drowns both them and the giants. 



Such is the reparation which this ingenious author has 

 thought proper -to attribute to Providence, in anfwer to the 

 firft, and the heft-founded complaints that were made to 

 him by man. I think this exhaufts about four or five of 

 the firft chapters. It is not the fourth part of the book ; but 

 my curiofity led me no further. The cataftrophe of the 

 giants, and the juftice of the cataftrophe, had fully farisfied 

 me. 



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