15. Si admittamus insupor Ignam Centratem, sive Maisom ignir in centra Terra, quod quidem ain est basus argumenti. Neque partem intimam Chaos, niji ibiter & pro formo, conjiaeravi, cum ad um, nesram non spestet. Vid. etiam p. 186.
16. Notandum verò, quamvis mundi veteris dissolutionem & rationes Diluvii secundum ordinem causarum naturalium, explicemus, quòd eo modo magis clarè & distinctè intelligantur; non ideò in pœnam humani generis ordinatum suisse diluvium, singulisque ipsius motibus præfuisse providentiam, inficiamur: imò in eo elucet maximè Sapientia divina, quòd mundum naturalem morali ita coaptet & attemperet, ut hujus ingenio, illius ordo & dispositio semper respondeat: & amberum libratis momentis, simul concurrant & unà compleantur utriusque tempora & vicissitudines; ipse etiam Apostolus Petrus diluvii & excidii mundani causas naturales assignat, cùm ait, δὶ ὧν, &c.
17. De Grat. prim. tm. c. 12.
Accedit adbat, quad Paradisus ita deferiditus à Sinsto Basilio, in I. ’to de Paradiso; à Joan. Damasceno, Libre secundo, de fide, capit; à Sano Augustino Libre decim: quarto et cevit ete Dei, capit. 10. Ab A, A & Claud. Ma.
18. The Exceptor rejects, first the Waters of the Sea: Then the Waters in the Bowels of the Earth: Then the supercelestial Waters: Then a new Creation of Waters: Then the Mass of Air chang’d into Water: And lastly, a partial Deluge. And therefore he puts Men fatally, either upon the Theory, or upon his new Hypothesis.
19. This he acknowledges, p. 325. (We expound a Text or two of Scripture so as none ever did; and deferring the common received Sense, put an unusual Gloss upon them, not to say, ἰδίαν ἐπίλυσιν, a private Interpretation,) and p. 359.
20. P. 303. But though these Caverns be called Deeps, we must not take them for profound Places, that went down into the Earth, below the common Surface of it: On the contrary, they were situate above it.
21. Psal. cxiv. 7, 8. Tremble, then Earth, at the Presence of the Lord, at the Presence of the God of Jacob: Which turned the Rock into a standing Water, the Flint into a Fountain of Waters.
Numb. xx. 10, 11. And Moses and Aaron gathered the Congregation together before the Rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, you Rebels; must we fetch you Water out of this Rock? And Moses lift up his Hand, and with his Rod he smite the Rock twice, and the Water came out abundantly.
22. Engl. Theor. Chap. VIII. p. 112, &c.
23. Cic. de Nat. Dict. l. 1.
24. Galil. Syst. Cos. p. 133. Hugen. Cosmetô. c. 2. p. 115.
25. Engl. p. 230, &c. Lat. p. 107.
26. Cosmoth. p. 135.
27. l. s. Prop. 4.
28. Ibid. Prop. 56.
29. Ephames. par. 2. ad An. 1624.
30. P. 145.
31. Disc. de la Pesant. p. 149.
32. Ibid. p. 165.
33. M. Hugens de la Pesant, p. 152. Il est a croire, que la Terre a pris cette figure, lors qu’ elli a esté assemblee par l’effect de la Pesanteux: sa matiere sient des mouvement circulatoire de 24 heures.
34. Lat. Theor. lib. 2. p. 185.
35. Theor. l. 2. 5. p. 186.
36. Plat. Cratyl. m. p. 425. Ἐπειάν τι ἀπορῶσιν, ἐτὶ τάς μηχανὰς καταθεύγουσι, θεοῦς αἴροντεσ. Cum rei alicujus engusios, ad machines consugiunt & D inducunt. This is also remark’d and render’d in other Words by Tully in Nat. Dor. l. 1. Cum explicare argumenti exitum non pet, confugitis ad Deum. St. Austin also speaking about the supercelestial Waters, hath noted this Method, and reprov’d it, in these Words, Nec quisquam echos refellere, ut decat secundum omnpotentism Dei sunt possibatis nos credere equas etiam am era quam novimus atque sentimus, corpori in que sunt sydera, super sufas: Nunc enim quam Deus rerum secundum Scripturam ejus, nec qu convenit, non solus quad in vel ad misacutum omnipotent. You see Discretion and Moderation is to be used in these and such like Matters.