tf toe flick to the Letter of the' Scripture-ff l° r y °f the Creation, that the Creation offoes smceeded the- Separation of Land andea ) and that the fix' days wherein the Worldseated,were fix natural Days and no more,

* s very difficult to return a Jatisfaftory An -to this Ohjeftion I shad therefore only« <* ton]eftttre of my own, and that is, ThatP°fstbly a t the firH Creation, the whole Earthnot all at once uncovered, hut only thoseP ar ts whereabout Adam and the other Animals^ ye created , and the reft gradually after -perchance mt in many Tears ; during^ lc h time these Shell-fjh might breed abutt-antsy all the Sea over, the bottom whereof be *elevated and made dry Land, the Beds ofshells '(h, mutf necessarily be raised togethertitbit.

A 2-, dt will hende follow that many Species ofIs have been loft out of the World,which. ^dofophers and Divines ari utiwHling to ad-^^fheming the DeJhuftion of any one Species. ^ifhembring os' the Vniverfe, and rendringWo rid imperfe ft. Whereas’they think the*yhe Providence is especially concerned and°. lc h°us to secure and preserve the Works ofe Creation. And truly so it is, as appears,^ that it was so careful to lodge all Land-Ani-j in the Ark at the time of the general Pe-and in that of all Animals recorded in*hral Histories , we cannot fay that there

hath