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first Earth, so I believe there was also in the dissolution of it; And I think it had been impossible for the
Ark to have liv'd upon the raging Abysse, or for
Noah and his family to have been preserv'd, if there
had not been a miraculous hand of Providence to
take care of them. But 'tis hard to separate and distinguish an ordinary and extraordinary Providence
in all cases, and to mark just how far one goes, and
where the other begins. And writing a Theory of
the Deluge here, as we do, we were to exhibit a Series of causes whereby it might be made intelligible,
or to shew the proximate Natural causes of it; wherein we follow the example both of Moses and S. Peter;
and with the same veneration of the Divine Power
and Wisdom in the government of Nature, by a constant ordinary Providence, and an occasional extraordinary.
So much for the Theory of the Deluge, and the
second Section of this Discourse.
CHAP. IX.
The Second Part of this Discourse, proving the
same Theory from the Effects and present Form of
the Earth. First, by a general Scheme of what
is most remarkable in this Globe, and then by a
more particular Induction; beginning with an Account of Subterraneous Cavities and Subterraneous Waters.
WE have now finisht our explication of the Universal Deluge, and given an account, not
only of the possibility of it, but of its Causes; and of
that form and structure of the Earth, whereby the
Old World was subject to that sort of Fate. We have
not beg'd any Principles or Suppositions for the
proof of this, but taking that common ground,
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