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Cii. in.] 



BURNET. 



47 



the order of their gravity, the heavier shells in stone, the 

 lighter in chalk, and so of the rest.'* Ray 



immediately 



remar 



that fossil bodies < are often mingled, heavy with light, in the 



so far as to say, that 



same stratum; 7 and ne even weuu w «** «« — -j> — — 

 Woodward < mnst have invented the phenomena for the sake 



om 



t — a strong 



Burnet 1680-1690.— At the same time Burnet published 



s ._.«,-•• it 1*1* 



t 



mo 



of the age, 



_< The Sacred Theory of the Earth ; containing 

 an Account of the Original of the Earth, and of all the gene- 

 ral Changes which it hath already undergone, or is to 



Mil 



undergo, till the Consummation of all Things.' 

 ton had scarcely ventured in his poem to indul 

 nation so freely in painting scenes of the Creation and 



ima 



H 



showed 



Deluge, Paradise and Chaos. 



earth enjoyed a perpetual spring before the flood ! 



how the crust of the globe was fissured by ' the sun's rays/ 



so that it burst, and thus the diluvial waters were let loose 



inspired writers, 



from a supposed central abyss. Not 



themes, he derived from 



and even from heathen authorities, prophetic views of the 



future revolutions of the globe, gave a most terrific descrip- 



a new 



tion of the general conflagration, and proved that 

 heaven and a new earth will rise out of a second chaos— -after 

 which will follow the blessed millennium. 



The reader should be informed, that, according to the opi- 

 nion of many respectable writers of that age, there was good 



" r that the garden bestowed 



presumm 



upon our first parents was not on the earth itself, but above 



middle 



moon 



lm 



becomin 

 He was 



& 



Mesop 



maintained 



* Essay towards a Natural History 

 of the Earth, 1 69 5. Preface. 



t Consequences of the Deluge, p. 165. 



X First published in Latin between 

 the years 1680 and 1690. 



