of the World.

interprets that laying of our Saviour,the Sott of man should be three days inj heart of the earth , of his being threein the middle of the Earth, whichc °fcld not be meant (faith he ) of the Se-Nchre, because that was hewen out of ap.° c h in its Superficies. 3. It is a receivedpinion among the Divines of the Church ofthat Hell is about the Center of thepfth : mlomuch as lome of them have been0, ’cjtous to de mo nil rate that there is roomEnough to receive all the Damned,by giving^ the Dimensions thereof.

Neither is it repugnant to the History of

Y Creation in Genesis. For tho' indeed Mo-

Y doth mention only Water and Earth, ascomponent parts of this Body ; yet dothnot assert that the Earth is a simple, uni-

^tn, homogeneous Body ; as neither dowhen we lay, Zrpon the face of the earth ,° r the like. For the Earth, we fee, is a Maisjj^de up of a multitude of different Species ofY'-Ues, Metals , Minerals , Stones , and other?ssi!s. Sand, Clay , Marie, Chalk , &c. which^ all agree in that they are consistent and°«d more or dels, and are in that respect^’itradistinguilhed to Water and togetherImpound one Mais, which we call Earth.

hfcthcr the interior parts of the Earth be^de up of lo great a variety of different

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