Part of the Earth. 24^ 



at one View difcover how confbnant 

 the Account which Mofes hath left us 

 of the Primitive Earth, is to this which 

 we have from Nature^ and how much 

 the late Theory of the Earth differs from 

 both, I will fet down that Writers 

 Senfe of the Matter under each Head as 

 we pafs along. 



To begin therefore with the Sea:, 

 That there was one before the Deluge, 

 there needs not , I think, any other 

 Proof than the Produftions of it yet in 

 being : the Shells , the Teeth , and 

 Bones of Sea- Fifhesjj. Andfor Mofes^\\Conf. 

 he is not at all averfe hereto ; but as ^^''^ 

 exprefly aflerts that there was then a 

 Sea, as the Theory does, that there was 

 none. Take it in his own words. 



And God faidy Let the Waters under ^ q^^, ^ 

 the Heaven be gathered together unto one 9* 

 flace^ and let the Dry-land appear : and 

 it tvas fo. And God called the Dryland 

 Earthy and the gathering together of the 

 Waters called he SEAS : and God faw 

 that it was good. And though the The- 

 orift flatly denies that there was then 

 any fuch thing, yet he does not go 

 about to difpute the Tranflation of this 

 Paffage, but readily owns% that M?- 1. 1.^.7. 

 fes hath here ufed a word that was com- 

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