VL An Account of a Book; vi^i 
Edmundi Mckenfoni M P. Phyfica vetm is ve^ 
ra^ fwe^ Tra^atus de Naiurali veritate hexame- 
ri Mofaicii F&r quern Prohatur in hi dor i a Crea- 
tionis cum generationis Vniwerf^ methoJum atqi 
wiodutfhtum vera Phi iojofhi^ pmtcipia^ fid[^i??iJ 
'a.tq% BreDiter tradi. Lofidini ijoi. in^o.. 
MAny perfons having caviird at tte Mofaical Cofmo-- 
p£ia^ as unphilofophically written, this Learned 
Author here takes upon hirn to (lievT, that Mofis, in his > 
Hiftory of the Creation, has briefly delivered bath the 
principles of true Philofophy, and the method and man- 
ner of all generation. Uadertaking to elucidate the Af^?-- 
Jaick P/jilofophyy and conceiving it caenot be better done, 
than -by. the Corpufculariaii/or Atomrcal :Phi!ofc5phy (as 
being moft fitted for explaining and proving the generati- 
on of things)he has thought il neceflary^in the fir ft pi ace, to 
remove that great prejudice,which many learned men have 
had againft this kind of Philofophy ^ and having intimated 
its Anuquity, he fays that all the ancient Greek Corpu.^cu- 
larian Philofophers before A^ximwdcr, who was Difc:* 
pie and Succeffor to TLdes^ maintain'd a Deity ^ which 
he denyed, and initiated many Atheiftic.il Philofophers 
aiiiong the Jf7/^^V4^, till Anaxagoras^ that famous Corpufcu- 
larian, reftored the Doftrine oiThcilcs^ and to the Parti- 
cles of Corpufcles (as Thales had done beforej added a. 
mind, that is, God to work all t = imgS5 the Author 
fays, afterward all (excepting Eplcurm^ and his followers) 
granting thefe Principles,, were fo. far from ihinkins; the 
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