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ber of Worlds, and that God has oftentimes 

 Annihilated and Re-Created the fame- But 

 how he came firft to Create the World and 

 Mankind, they relate to have been thus— 

 Once on a time (fay they) as he was fet 

 in Eternity, it came into his mind to make 

 fomething, and immediately no fooner had 

 he thought the fame, but that the fame 

 Minute was a perfeft Beautiful Woman 

 prefent immediately before him, which he 

 called u4dea Suktee^ that is, the firft Wo- 

 man : Then this figure put into his mind 

 the figure of a Man which he had no 

 fooner conceived in his mind, but that 

 he alfo ftarted up, and reprefented himfelf 

 before him : this he called Manafuife^ 

 that is, the firft Man ^ then upon a re- 

 flexion of thefe things, he refolv'd further 

 to create feveral places for them to abide 

 in, and accordingly alFuming a fubtil body^ 

 he Breath'd in a Minute the whole Uni- 

 yerfe, and every thing therein, from the 

 leaft to the greateft. 



They conftantly believe that the Uni- 

 verfe cannot poflibly laft longer than qi 

 Joo£s^ which is a meafure of time with them,i 

 and is ... . years. Which when it is come, 

 God docs not only annihilate the whole 

 Univerfe, but even everything elfe, as well 

 Angels, Souls, and Spirits, as Inferiour 

 Creatures and then he remains in the fame 

 State that he was in before the Creation ^ 

 But fay, that after he has a while reJfpired 

 thus he Breaths again, and every thing is 

 Created afrefti, as well Angels and Souls, 

 as all other tilings ; but as for the Spirits,, 



they 



