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ing),the face of the Land, which were after- 'wards separated from the Land, and gather-ed together into one place. Then he crea-ted out of the Land and Water first Plants,and then Animals, Fifties, Birds, Beasts, inOrder, and last of all formed the Body ofMan of the Dust of the Earth.

And whereas there is no particular men-tion made of the Creadon of Metals, Mine-rals and other Fossils, they must be compre-hended in the word Earth , as the Water itself also is in the second Verle of this firstChapter.

It seems therefore to me consonant to the *Scripture, That God Almighty did at firstcreate the Earth or Terraqueous Globe, con-taining in its self the Principles of all simple> inanimate Bodies, or the minute and natu-rally. indivisible Particles of which they werecompounded, of various but a determinatenumber of Figures, and perchance of diffe-rent magnitudes; and these variously andconfusedly commixed, as though they hadbeen carclcfly shaken and shuffled together;yet not lo, but that there was order obser-ved by the most Wise Creator in the disposi-tion of them. And not only so,but that thesame Omnipotent Deity did create also theSeeds or Seminal Principles of all AnimateBodies, both Vegetative and Sensitive; andr difperst