be cast in a mould, that hinders the motion and flux
of the parts. So that the first concrete state or consistent surface of the Chaos, must be of the same
form or figure with the last liquid state it was in; for
that is the mould, as it were, upon which it is cast;
as the shell of an Egg is of the like form with the
surface of the liquor it lies upon. And therefore by
analogy with all other liquors and concretions, the
form of the Chaos, whether liquid or concrete, could
not be the same with that of the present Earth, or
like it: And consequently, that form of the first or
primigenial Earth which rise immediately out of the
Chaos, was not the same, nor like to that of the present Earth. Which was the first and preparatory Proposition we laid down to be prov'd. And this being
prov'd by the authority both of our Reason and our
Religion, we will now proceed to the Second, which
is more particular.
CHAP. V.
The Second Proposition is laid down, viz That
the face of the Earth before the Deluge was
smooth, regular and uniform; without
Mountains, and without a Sea. The Chaos
out of which the World rise is fully examin'd, and
all its motions observ'd, and by what steps it
wrought it self into an habitable World. Some
things in Antiquity relating to the first state of
the Earth are interpreted, and some things in the
Sacred Writings. The Divine Art and Geometry in the construction of the first Earth is observ'd
and celebrated.
WE have seen it prov'd, in the foregoing Chapter, that the form of the first or Ante-diluvian Earth, was not the same, nor like the form of the
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