mt wholly abforb^d and fwallow'd up, and covered 
by the Seas that we now have, and that this Earth of 
ours rife then out of the bottom of the Antidiluvian 
Sea in its room 3 jaft as many Iflands^ are fwallow'd up^ 
and others thruft up in their ftead. 
Neither is this at all contrary to th^ Scriptures, but 
the moft concordant to it of all others. Mofes fays, 
that the fame day that Nonh and bis Family, and all 
the Creatures that ftiould be faved, entered the Ark, 
that then the Rains began to fall, and prefently after 
the Fountains of the great Abyfs were broken up. 
That is, it rained very hard, and the Foundations of 
the Earth being dilTolved, the Earth begun to (ubfide, 
fink down, and yield, and to prefs upon the great fub- 
terraneous Caverns of water, which thereupon all broke 
out, and fprung up, and fo overflowed, and by degrees 
drowned their whole World. And the Waters prevail- 
ed continually, fays Mofes^ v. 18. that is, by reafon 
of the Earth's further finking 5 for the more and the 
deeper it funk in, the higher did the Waters rife above 
it V fo that at the laft they covered the tops of the 
higheft Mountains that were in the Antidiluvian world 
fifteen Cubits upwards, and every thing that moved 
upon the face of the whole Earth dyed. And then, as 
this old Earth funk in. fo our new one was lifted up 
to ballance the finking of the other, and as it afcend- 
ed, the Waters rolled from off it continually, and in 
1:50 days it became free of them, and the Ark refted 
itfelf upon, or rather againft the Hills, which were 
afterwards called Arrarat. 
Thus in moft probability was the old World 
drowned and deftroyed, and thus had we that where- 
on we now dwell in its place, and that which Plata 
tells fome 6 or 700 years before Chrifts time. That 
in old times there v/as a huge Ifland much bigger than 
A/ia ?Aid Africa ipnt together, abounding with all the 
delights:. 
