The Natural Bifiory Part Ilil 



the Deluge : they are fo ftill : and wills 

 be fb, but not univerfally ; there are 1 

 now bounds fet to the Contagion, and 

 'tis reftrained by renmoving the main 

 caufe of it ; but there^ the Venom nia- 

 nifefted it felf on all hands : fpread 

 far and near : and fcarcely ftopM till 

 Was infinuated into the whole mafs 

 of Mankind, and the World was little^ 

 better than a common fold of Phren- 

 ticks and Bedlams. 



That to reclaim and retrieve the 

 World out of this wretched and for- 

 lorn ftate^ -the common Father and 

 Benefadlor of Mankind feafonably in- 

 terpofed his hand : and refcued mi- 

 ferable Mao out of the grofs Stupidity 

 and Seofuality whereinto he was thus , 

 unfortunately plunged. And this he 

 did partly" by tying up his hands, 

 and fliortning the power of finning 

 checking Wm, in the Career of hm- 

 Follies, by Difeafes and Pains: and% 

 letting Peath, the King of Terror%* 

 which -before flood aloof off, and at 

 the Iong?rj^Pcance of eight or nine hun- 

 dred Year^ now much nearer to his 

 view, ortHining that days jhalihe 

 but an hmdred and twenty years \ : and 

 partly by removing the T^mptation^/i, 



