Consequences of the Deluge,

C If A P. II. ;

Of the Causes of the Deluge ,

T T THat were the instrumental Causes of 'Vy Means of the Flood ? Whether \was it effected by natural or supernatural;Means only ? Whether was God no furtherconcerned in it, than in so ordering secondCauses at first, as of themselves necessarilyto bring it in at such a time ?

First, Those that hold this Deluge was jaltogether miraculous, and that God Al'mighty created Waters on purpose to serve ,this occasion, and when they had done theirwork destroyed them again, dilpatcht theBusiness, and loose or cut tire Knot in a bwords. And yet this Hypothesis is not & \absurd and precarious,as at first sight it may ;seem to be. For the World being already .lull, there needed not, nor indeed could 1# jany Creation of Water out of nothing, busonly a Transmutation of some other Body jinto Water. Now if we grant all Natural jBodies, even the Elements themselves, to bemutually transmutable, as few Men doubt,and some think they can demonstrate; why i