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the Chaos from the second Verse,earth was without form and void , and clar n Jvoas upon the face of the deep. but it it weremore ancient, it must. still ih all likelnoo

Divinely revealed, because Man being crea

last, and brought into a World already e

and furnistied And God being an Omnipo-tent, and also a Free Agent, who could as wehave created the World in a mornent^ora o-gether, as successively, it was impossib e oMan by reason to determine, which way 1made choice of. , .

The Third, Concern', ngthe future Diliolu*tion and Destruction of the World by a Ge-neral Conflagration, there being nothing inNature that can demonstrate the ne Yit : and a second Inundation and Submertionby Water, being in the Course of Nature anhundred times more probable,as I have tew nin the ensuing Discourses: And theiefore welee God Almighty to secure Man against tneapprehension and dread of a second De uge,made a Covenant with him, *° g lVe hml avisible Sign in confirmation ot it, never todestroy the World to again: And the Ancientswho relate this Tradition, delivering it as anOracle or Decree of Fate. Ovid Met amorph. i.EJfe quoque in satis reminifeitar a ff oret J m f. ’

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