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lent,when and how it began,but the Scri¬ 
pture is not lo J Mean time, that there 
was once fuch a Face of the Earth, Na¬ 
ture affirms, and Scripture Confirms, for 
as much as it teacheth, that Waters ari- 
fing from one Spring did water the whole 
Earth. 
Of the ThirdVice of the Earthjwhich 
Was Craggy, neither Scripture nor Na¬ 
ture determines, when it began. Nature 
indeed fhews, that that Inequality was 
great; and the Scripture maketh mention 
of Mountains at the time of the Deluge? 
but at what time thofe Mountains j which 
the Scripture there fpeaketh of,were pro¬ 
duced ; whether they were the fame 
Mountains with thofe of this time? whe¬ 
ther in the beginning of the Deluge there 
was the fame depth of Valleys that now 
is, or whether, for depreffing the fuper- 
fice of the much growing Waters the 
new breaches of Beds did open new 
gulfs, neither Scripture nor Nature de-> 
cideth. 
The Fourth Face, when all was Sea, 
feems to have more difficulty in it; al¬ 
though indeed it be all eafy. That the 
Sea hath been higher, than now it is, the 
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