64 Life of 'Mr. RAY. 
Editions in 1761, 1704, 1709, arid 
1714, with large. Additions (18). 
This ■ Book taking fo well, and 
correlponding heft with his Profef- 
fion as a Divine, encouraged him to 
think of publilhing another Book of 
a like Nature; whofe Foundation 
was alfo laid in Cambridge , and this 
was his 'Three P hyfco-Theologkal Dif 
courfes, concerning the Chaosy DelugCy 
and Dijfolution of the JVorld. 'The 
Subftance of thefe Difcourfes, or Part 
-of them at leafl, had been the Subjed 
of fome Sermons (as I have faid) 
which he had preached at St. Mary% 
before the Univerhty. 
This Book was finifhed at thePrefs 
in December 1692, and was alfo, as 
(18) It may here be obferved, that in the Year 
1700 Mr. Ray publifhed a Tra6t of pradlical 
Divinity, intitled, A Perfuafive to an Holy Life, 
the 
