and Creation. H

From Chaos proceeded Hell, and Night [orDarkness] which {eems to have its founda-tion or occasion from the second Verse otthe first Chapter of Genesis ; And the Earthwas without form and 'void ; and darknest wasupon the face of the deep. Of this testimo-ny of Hefiod, Lallan tius takes notice , andcensures it, in the first Book of his Instituti-ons cap. Sy, Hefiodus non a Deo conditore^fu-mens exordium, fid a Chao, quod estrudis inor-dinataque materiœ confufœ congeries . HesiodP ot taking his beginning from God the •Creator of all things, but from the Chaos ,Which is a rude and inordinate heap of con-fused matter. And se Ovid describes it inthe beginning of his Metamorphosis ;

Quern dixere Chaos, rudis indigestive moles ,

Idee quicquam nisi pondus iners congestiqueeodem

Hon lene j unit ar urn difeordia femina rerum.

That is,

One face had Nature, which they Chaos nartidAn undigested lumpy a larren load ,

Where jarring Seeds of things ill-joy nd ahoad .

Others of the Ancients have also madertiention of the Chaoses Aristophanes in Avi -bus,

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