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the Form of the Year hapned, it bringing in theineqtra- 
lity of Seafons. i 
. Mow the Author of the Confiderations having made 
good, as. he .conceives, in the firft part of them, That 
■ the Earth could not be other wife ballancd before the De- 
luge than fince ? here farther fliews the irnpoffibility of the 
Earths changing it'sPoiture, through the Caufes affigned. 
in the theory ; and fubjoyns many Reafons why the 
Earth muft. have always had the fame Poftureto the Sua 
it has now; and reprefencs many Abiurdities which rnoft 
follow, if it had that Pcfture to the Sun in the Antedi- 
luvian Times which is .contended for in the Theory. And 
as for the Antediluvian Longevity's being afcnb'd to the 
(aid Pofture of the Earth' to the Sun, he fliews that the 
varieties of Species and Conftitutions in Animals being 
confidered, theDiverfity of Seafons is more commodi- 
otis for their orderly Succeffion in Life, and affigns other 
Caufes, more probable, as he conceives, for the (aid. 
Longevity. Next, tnt Theory fets forth the Source and 
Origineof the Waters in the Primaeval Earth, the Courfe 
the Rivers then had, and their iflue ; the ftate of the Air 
in the Antediluvian times, and the Origioe of tjhe Rain- 
bow; againft all which many things are objected in the 
Confiderations, And whereas the Theory reprefents Pa- 
ra dife as plac'd in the other Remifphere by the ancient 
Gentiles and Chriftian Fathers, the Confiderations fet 
forth, That as for the Ancient Gentiles, they meant Fa- 
radife only Intellectual, as the Allegorical Fathers did ; 
and that tho' mod of the Chriftian Fathers held a To- 
pical Paradife, yet there is no ground for us to conclude, 
that they held it to be in the other Remifphere, but ra- 
ther in this we inhabit. • ■ 
In the next place the Theory gives an Explanation of 
the Ancient's Chaos ; reprefents thcTorrid Zone, uninha- 
bitable before the Deluge, and the Changes of the Poles 
of the World at the Deluge ; explains the Do&rine of the 
• Ancients 
