Consequence* of the Deluge.

tenance to the Atheists Assertion,That thingswere made or did exist by chance , withoutcounsel or direction to any end.

Add hereto Thirdly,That there are otherBodies besides shells tound in the Earth, re-sembling the Teeth and Bones of some Fish-es, which are to manifestly the very thingsthey are thought only to resemble, that itmight be esteemed obstinacy in any Manthat hath viewed and considered them to de-ny it. Such are the Glojsopetnc dug up inMalta in such abundance, that you may bu>'them by measure, and not by tale : and alsothe Vertebres of Thornbacks and other Car-rilagineous Fillies there found, and fold for ;Stones among the GldJJ'vpeir®., which haveno greater dissimilitude; to tjhc Teeth of ahving Shark, and Vertebres ot a Thornlack,then lying so long in the Earth, as they mustneeds have done, w.ill necessarily induce*Mr. Door/y has in his custody a petrify’dlump of Fishes, on some of which theS;cafesthemselves still remain. And if the very in-spection of these Bodies , is not enough toconvince any Man, that they are no Stones,but real Teeth and Bones , Fall us ColumMproves it by several strong Arguments*i. Those things which have a woody, bony jor fleshy nature, by burning are changedfirst into a Coal, before they go into a Calx