IIi?ait 1 L of the Eartk ^9f 



to deferr it a while, untill I have firft 

 propofed them. 



Thus have I drawn up a brief Schemeo^ 

 what befell the Earth at the Deluge: and 

 of the Change that it then underwent. 

 I have, by comparing its Antediluvian 

 ' with its prefent ftate, found whtrc "Conf, 

 chiefly the Difereme lay ; viz. in de- ^^''^ ^° 

 gree of Fertility. I have endeavourM 

 alfb to difcover the Reafon why this 

 Change was made in it. For fince that 

 the Procefs of it was fb folemn and ex- 

 " traordinary : that there were fo rxiany^ - 

 and thofe fo ffrange things done : that 

 the firjl Earth was perfectly unmade 

 again, taken all to pieces, and framed 

 a-ncw ; and indeed , the very fame 

 Method that was ufed in the original 

 Formation of it, ufed likewife in this 

 Renovation 3 our Earth (landing the 

 firft ftep after its DilTolotion, in the 

 fame pofture that the Primitive Earth 

 did the firft ftep after its Rife out of 

 Nothing ; which the Reader will eafi- 

 ly find by conferring the fifth Propofi- 

 tion of this Part with Gen. i. v. 2. and 9: 

 fince likewife there was fb mighty an 

 Hand f concerned, arid which doesfo^^f. 

 iiot a£t without great and weighty ^^^^ i- 

 Reafbns, there could be no doubt but 



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