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In the next place he argues againfl the afligning of any 
Natural Caufes for the Deluge, which is undertaken in 
the Theory : And whereas its there let forth, that the 
Earth before the Deluge was all fmooth and even, with- 
but Mountains and a Sea; he {hews by many natural 
Reafbns the necefiity of both from the beginning ot the 
World : And for a Conclufion to this part of the Theory, 
it being there let forth, that the firft Order of things is 
regular and fimple; and that the Deformity of the pre- 
fent Earth, as it appears all broken ; and its Incommo- 
dioufnefs fliew, that the prefent ftate of it was not Ori- 
ginal, nor dilpos'd according to the Laws of Gravity. 
He replies to this, that Common Gravitation rules not 
all in the Diftribution of the parts of the World ; as tho' 
all the heavieft parts were to be Iowermoft,and the light- 
eft uppermoft, no more than in the Diftribution of the 
parts of Animals, in whom many times, in order to 
certain ufes, the heavieft parts are placd uppermoft, and 
lighter lowermoft ; and he thinks it eafie to ihew ana- 
logous ufes in the parts of the Earth, if their Site be 
fometimes in the like Order. 
As to the Second Part of the Theory, concerning the 
Primaeval Earth and Paradife, its there (et forth, That 
the Ancients having reprefented in the Golden Age, or 
Paradifiacal Times, a perpetDal Spring, a great; Longe- 
vity of Animals, and the produ&ion otthemout of the 
Earth, and the great Fertility of the Soil in all other 
things; the Earth, in the Antidilavian times, muft have 
had a right Situation and Pofture to the Sun,which muft 
then have conftantly mov'd in the Equinox, . for making 
good thefe things ; and that upon the Earths Difrupti- 
onat the Deluge, it loft its equal Poyfe, and Co its right 
or parallel Situation, which it had before to the Sun, 
was changdjnto an Oblique, in which Pofture it has 
flood ever fince ; and upon this Change, the Change of 
