Consequences of the Deluge.

ward, and at last compel it to run out $those wide Mouths and Apertures made bythe Divine Power breaking up the Foufl'tains of the great Deep. And we may sup'pose this to have been only a gentle 3^gradual Emotion, no faster than that th eWaters running out at the bottom of th eSea, might accordingly lowre the Superscics thereof sufficiently, so that none need # 1run over the Shores. These Waters th^poured out from the Orifices of the FoU> 1 'tains upon the Earth , the declivity beiflf?changed by the removal of the CentC’could not flow down to the Sea again,must needs stagnate upon the Earth , 3°“overflow it; and afterwards the Earthturning to its old Center, return also to th^former Receptacles.

If any shall object against this Hypothefr'because by it the Flood will be render’d T 5 'pical, and restrained only to tire Contin^we live in: though I might plead the ^necestarincss of drowning America , it b etfoin all probability unpeopled at that time; )'

because the Scripture uscth general exp^/ions concerning the extent of the Flo^’saying, Gen. i. 19 . And all the high hillswere under the whole Heaven were coveted j

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