gress can be made in this Argument. For in the doctrine of Paradise there are two things to be consider'd, the state of it, and the place of it; And as it
is first in order of Nature, so it is much more material, to find out the state of it, than the Region where
it stood. We need not follow the windings of Rivers, and the interpretation of hard names, to discover
this, we take more faithful Guides, THE unanimous
reports of Antiquity, Sacred and Profane, supported
by a regular Theory. Upon these grounds we go,
and have thus far proceeded on our way; which we
hope will grow more easie and pleasant, the nearer we
come to our journeys end.
CHAP. IV.
A digression, concerning the Natural Causes of
Longcevity. That the Machine of an Animal
consists of Springs, and which are the two principal. The Age of the Ante-diluvians to be computed by Solar not Lunar Years.
TO confirm our opinion concerning the reasons
of Longævity in the first Inhabitants of the
World, it will not be amiss to deduce more at large
the Natural Causes of long or short periods of life. And
when we speak of long or short periods of life, we do
not mean those little differences of ten, twenty, or
forty years which we see amongst men now adays,
according as they are of stronger or weaker constitutions, and govern themselves better or worse, but
those grand and famous differences of several hundreds of Years, which we have examples of in the different Ages of the World, and particularly in those
that liv'd before and since the Flood. Neither do we
think it pcculiar to this Earth to have such an inequality in the lives of men, but the other Planets, if they
be inhabited, have the same property, and the same
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