The Sacred Theory of the Earth (1684)


The Sacred Theory of the Earth (1684)



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TO THE KINGS MOST Excellent Majesty.

PREFACE TO THE READER.

THE THEORY OF THE EARTH. BOOK I
  CHAP. I.
  CHAP. II.
  CHAP. III.
  CHAP. IV.
  CHAP. V.
  CHAP. VI.
  CHAP. VII.
  CHAP. VIII.
  CHAP. IX.
  CHAP. X.
  CHAP. XI.
  CHAP. XII.

THE THEORY OF THE EARTH. BOOK II
  CHAP. I.
  CHAP. II.
  CHAP. III.
  CHAP. IV.
  CHAP. V.
  CHAP. VI.
  CHAP. VII.
  CHAP. VIII.
  CHAP. IX.
  CHAP. X.
  CHAP. XI.

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THE THEORY OF THE EARTH. BOOK II

BOOK II.

Concerning the Primæval Earth, and concerning Paradise.

CHAP. I.

The Introduction and Contents of the Second Book. The general state of the Primceval Earth, and of Paradise.

WE have already seen a World begin and perish; An Earth rais'd from the rudiments of a Chaos, and dissolv'd and destroy'd in an Universal Deluge. We have given also an imperfect description of that Primæval Earth, so far as was necessary to show the causes and manner of its dissolution. But we must not content our selves with this; Seeing that Earth was the first Theater upon which mortals appear'd and acted, and continued so for above Sixteen hundred Years; and that with Scenes, as both Reason and History tell us, very extraordinary and very different from these of our

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