Geologia: or, a discourse concerning the earth before the deluge. Wherein the form and properties ascribed to it, in a book intituled the Theory of the earth [by Thomas Burnet], are excepted against: and it is made toappear, that the dissolution of that earth was not the cause of the universal flood. Also a new explication of that flood is attempted / By Erasmus Warren.

  • Warren, Erasmus.
Date:
1690
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Credit: Geologia: or, a discourse concerning the earth before the deluge. Wherein the form and properties ascribed to it, in a book intituled the Theory of the earth [by Thomas Burnet], are excepted against: and it is made toappear, that the dissolution of that earth was not the cause of the universal flood. Also a new explication of that flood is attempted / By Erasmus Warren. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    7 cae | the Refurre€tion, by ordinary Revolutions and Reno- vations in Nature, do the pious and learned Fathers go. As Tertullian , Epiphanius , Ruffinus , St. Chry- foftom, St.Ambrofe, St.Aaftin, Theodoret, Damafcen, and others. Now juft as. Nature (hews the futurity of the Refur- reGtion, while it prettily adumbrates and prefigutes it to us,by various and lively Symbolsand Refemblances ; {0 Philofophy, another way, leads us into quick and clear Apprehenfions of its poffibility : I mean, while ‘¢ makes it evident, to fuch as confider, that a Body diffolved, muft ftill exift in the Mizures or little Par- ticles of it. And that the coarfeft matter Ceven that of a cadaverous Body it felf) by a meer Phyfical change of its Modes or Qualities, may be made into a Sub- france moft fine and glorious, and yet' be really and effentially the very fame it was. . But fill I fay, as before, that this mighty Work, as to the main of it, is to be done by the Hand of GOD. And if any will maintain, That it cannot be; it behoves them, as the Chriftian he whole 7 4 SAS ~ ser 7 et (45 it 1S, 3 dWvarey my O2G, i ACtAnTH, C1tNer = Trearife is very well. werth Pleafure , zéiasy evarm 4 cuvazayey, £0 ga- ther together the fragments and {eattered materials. of dead Bodies, and to reunite them, aejs ried dv3pd my ovsuor, for the Conftztution or Inftauration of Men. ‘To him it folely belongs, to give txdés~ 7 iser adua, 10 every one his own Body, 1 Cor. 15. 38. And without. his fpecial dire€ting and diftinguifhing Providence, i1m- poffible it muft be, that particular Souls fhould all recover the proper Ingredients ‘of * their refpective Bodies, out of that unfpeakable blend and confufion into which they will ‘be'run, before the -end of the D World.