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C. 10 .

Of the Chaos.

ings of Rivers on all sides from the Mid-landparts towards the Sea (whose property yveknow is to Hide from the higher to the low-er) evidently declare so much. * This Au-thor with Damafcen supposes, that the un-cvennels and irregularity, which is now seenin the Supers ties of the Earth , was causedeither by taking some parts out of the upperface of the Earth in sundry places to makeit more hollow, and laying them in otherplaces to make it more convex: or else(which in effect is equivalent to that) byraising up some , and depressing others tomake room and receipt for the Sea: thatMutation being wrought by the Power ofthat Word, Let the waters le gathered intoone place that the dry land may appear. Thisproportioning of the Cavities appointed toreceive the Seas, to the protuberancy of thedry Land above the common Superficies ofthe Ocean, is to me a sufficient Argument,to prove, that the gathering together of theWaters into one place, was a work of coun-sel and design; and if not effected by the im-mediate Finger of God, yet at least governedand directed by him. So the Scripture af-firms the place to receive the Sea , to havebeen prepared by God, Psalm 104.8. Nowin things of this nature, to the giving an ac-count whereof whatever Hypothesis we can