TheCONTENTS.

Discourse I.

Of the Primitive CHAOS, and Creationof the WORLD.

r^HAP. I Testimonies of tbt Ancient HeathenWriter^ IIe(iod,Qvid, Aviilophanes, LUvan,Euripides, concerning the Chaos, and w oat t eymeant by it. , r

Chap. II. That the Creation of the World out'.of aChaos, is not repugnant to the Hoy ens » /soberly understood, p> 5 >^> 7 » ' , , ,

Chap III- Of the separating the Land and Water, anraising up the Mountams, p. Y. &C. By what meansthe Waters were gathered together into one place>and the dry Land made to appear, p. I o. That /«terraneous Ftres and Flatus’s, might be °f P 0 si ver s H J,sicient to produce such aneffett, proved fromforce and esie£h of Gunpowder, and the ral fifsiof new Mountains, p, 11,12,13. The shaking ofthe whole known World by an Earthquake,

That the Mountains, Islands, and whole Continentswere probably at frit raised up by subterraneousFires, proved by the Authority of Eydiate an

Strabo, x>. 15,16,17. Of subterraneous Caverns

passing under the bottom of the Sea , p- l 9 , zo> ,. 2I si&c. A Di tiurje concerning the Equahty of theSea and Land, both as to the extent of eaca, and theheight of one, to the depth of the other , taken from