(lOO) 
cannot be deny’d, that there would have 
been a confpicuous difference obfervable 
between the Matter of the Bed, and the 
Matter percolated through the pores of 
the Bed, and filling the fpaces of the wa¬ 
fted Bodies. But if upon the Beds of 
the firft Fluid there lliould in fome pla¬ 
ces other Beds be found fluffed up with 
different Bodies, thence would follow 
nothing elfe than that upon the Beds of 
the firft Fluid there were depofed new 
Beds from another Fluid, the matter of 
which new Beds might have filled the ru- 
ines of the Beds that were left by the 
firft Fluid; fo that we muft always re- 
curr to this, that at the time when thofe 
Beds of fimple matter, and which are ob¬ 
vious in all Mountains, were form’d, the 
other Beds were not yet extant, but all 
were cover'd by a fluid,deftitute of Plants, 
Animals and other Solids; which Beds 
being of that kind, which none can deny 
but that they may have been immediatly 
produced by the Firft Mover, we do ac- 
knowledg a maniftft confent between 
Scripture and Nature. 
Of the Secondf^CQ of the Earth,which 
was Plain and Dry, Nature is likewife & 
lent. 
