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a one that I am willing to perfuade my 

 felf he never intended they jOhould • 

 yet it were to have been wifh'd that 

 he had been fomewhat more wary. 

 Thefe cryed up this Computation of 

 the Water as indifputable and infalli- 

 ble : and then boldly gave out that fuch 

 a Deluge as that defcribed by Mofes 

 was altogether incredible, and that 

 there nevsr was nor could be any fuch 

 Thing. Nothing was talk'd of araongft 

 them under Mathematical Dempuftra- 

 tions of the Falfliodd of it 5 ' whicli 

 they vented with all imaginable Tri- 

 umph, and would needs have it that 

 they had here fprung a frefh and un- 

 anfwerable Argument againft the Au- 

 thenticknefi of the Mofaick Writings; • 

 which indeed is what they drive at, 

 and a Point they very fain would gain. 



For my part, my SubjeQ: does not 

 necelTarily oblige me to look after this 

 Water: or to point forth the place 

 whereinto 'tis now retreated. For 

 when, from the Sea- (hells, and other 

 Remains of the Deluge, I fhall have 

 given undeniable Evidence that it did 

 a£lually cover all Parts of the Earth, it 

 mull: needs follow that there was then 

 Water enough to do it, wherever it 



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