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teen Cubits high. And yet the Scripturenot in plain terms lay, that ever theRaters of the Flood arose fifteen Cubits aboveE tops of the highest Mountains, as Mr.orren well observes.

Besides, we are further to consider, thatthis forty days Rain at the time of the De-u ge, was no ordinary one, such as those that^foally distil down leisurely and gently insinter time, but like our Thunder-stormsand violent Showers, Catarracts,and Spouts,

W'hich pour forth more water in an hour*ben they do in four and twenty. So thatIn forty natural days the Clouds would emp-ty out upon the Eartli not eighty Oceans ofWater, but above twenty times that quan-tity. If by the Window's of Heaven aremeant Catarracts , as the Septmgint inter-pret the word. And so we need not be tofoek for water for a Floud ; for the Rain a-ivne falling at that rate we have mentioned,

Would It the Opinion of those men (who holdthat the Rivers discharge into the Sea half anOcean daily) were true, in the space of for-ty natural days afford water enough, suppo-sing it.run off no faster than usually it doth,to cover the Earth, Mountains and all. Nei-ther yet did the Mountains help, but ratherbinder the descent of the waters down to theSe a, straitning it into Channels, obstructing

I 4 it?