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A65673	A second defence of the New theory of the earth from the exceptions of Mr. John Keill. By William Whiston, M.A. vicar of Lowestoft, Suffolk; and chaplain to the Right Reverend Father in God, John Lord Bishop of Norwich	Whiston, William, 1667-1752.	1700 (1700)	Wing W1697; ESTC R220939	12,718	26

A SECOND DEFENCE OF THE New Theory of the Earth FROM THE EXCEPTIONS OF Mr. IOHN KEILL By WILLIAM WHISTON M. A. Vicar of Lowestoft Suffolk and Chaplain to the Right Reverend Father in God IOHN Lord Bishop of Norwich LONDON Printed for Benj. Tooke at the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleetstreet 1700. A SECOND DEFENCE OF THE New Theory of the Earth c. SINCE I have resolv'd to be as short as possible in this Rejoinder and have ever determin'd with my self to avoid all Heat and Passion all Recriminations and personal Reflections which I look upon as Things unworthy of the Professors of the Peaceable and Charitable Religion of our Saviour as Immoralities in Philosophers and Crimes in Christians I shall therefore wave all things in Mr. Keill's Defence which might occasion any Reflections of that nature and endeavour only to debate the Matters in dispute between us with all the Calmness and Fairness possible And as wherever I am convinc'd by his Reasons I shall freely own it so it is but Equal that I expect the same of him upon the same Occasions Only He must give me leave to say That the Reason of my Surprize at His appearing in Publick against me was not any Special Obligations I thought him under to me but his having declar'd his Satisfaction with the principal Assertion nay the main Foundation of my Theory viz. That a Comet pass'd by the Earth at the Deluge After which Concession I could not I thought expect an Opposition in Print to my Book from him I will repeat Mr. Keill's Words at large in the beginning of his former Remarks and Appeal to the Candid Reader whether I had not some reason to be surpriz'd I cannot but acknowledge says Mr. Keill that the Author of the New Theory of the Earth has made greater Discoveries and proceeded on more Philosophical Principles than all the Theorists before him have done In his Theory there are some very strange Co-incidents which make it indeed probable That a Comet at the time of the Deluge pass'd by the Earth It is surprizing to observe the exact Correspondence between the Lunar and Solar Year upon the Supposition of a Circular Orbit in which the Earth mov'd before the Deluge It cannot but raise admiration in us when we consider that the Earth at the Time of the Deluge was in its Perihelion which would be the necessary Effect of a Comet that passed by at that time in drawing it from a Circular to an Elliptical Orbit This together with the Consideration that the Moon was exactly in such a place of its Orbit at that time as equally attracted with the Earth when the Comet pass'd by seems to be a very convincing Argument that a Comet really came very near and pass'd by the Earth on the day the Deluge began But to leave this Preface and to come to the Matters themselves in dispute between us In the First place therefore because Moses at the beginning of the Six days Creation says That Darkness was upon the face of the Deep whereas the Atmosphere of a Comet which I suppose to be the Chaos here meant is a transparent Fluid while it is such Mr. Keill argued that this transparent Atmosphere could not be the dark Abyss of Moses Now what I answer'd was That Moses did not concern himself with the ancient State of the Chaos but only with its State at the Commencing of his Creation at which time it would be a dark Abyss in the properest sense and highest degree imaginable Now all that Mr. Keill adds about this matter whether as to the light and shining of the Central Solid and his Calculations thereto relating As to the Change from a Pellucid to an Opake Fluid or as to the Restraint of the word Abyss to the Dense Fluid alone might have been omitted if he had first rightly understood and consider'd the Propositions in the New Theory where these Matters were explain'd already For certainly though the Central Solid were as luminous as the Sun it self yet to a Spectator plac'd in so thick a Mist there could no more of its Light from within than of the Sun 's from without appear Though truly the Calculations here suppose 1. the Earth when a Comet to have mov'd as near the Sun as the last whereas perhaps no other ever did so besides 2. The Heat of its own Nucleus the main Cause of its Tail which is utterly false and never imagin'd by me And 3. The Spectator at only Ten Miles distance from the Nucleus when he must have been as many Hundreds at least and so are wholly groundless and my Theory not at all concern'd in them Besides though All the Upper parts of the Atmosphere of a Comet through which we see the Fix'd Stars is Transparent yet the Lowest part next the Nucleus or Dense Body seems Opake and Dark like a very thick Mist so as to hide the Nucleus it self from our sight and cause Darkness upon the Face of the Deep For the Changes which some observe in the Nucleus of Comets are to be suppos'd not in the Solid Body but in the Cloudy Bottom of the Atmosphere which next encompasses the Nucleus And this Darkness upon the Face of the Deep might continue till the Comet was grown Cold and all the Denser part of the Atmosphere was Subsided and be greatest while those Denser parts were in a State of Coagulation and Subsiding 'T is also evident in my Book that I ascribe the Changes of the Chaos to the Operations of the Spirit of God introducing such Laws of Bodies by which the Earth would first be form'd and its Phaenomena ever after be govern'd And 't is sure no hard interpretation to include all that Fluid Region beneath the Earth's Future Surface under the term Abyss though after the Separation of the Earthy Parts and their Consolidation the Dense Fluid may most properly go by that Name And upon the Face of the Abyss there was at first Darkness and that succeeded by Light according to the exact Description of Moses and according to the Solution of the First Day 's work in the New Theory My next Answer was to Mr. Keill's Objection against the sudden Formation of the Earth in a few years time by the Laws of Mechanism For since says he the Confusions of the Comet 's Atmosphere seem to arise from the Violence of the Heat in its Perihelion as that Heat gradually decreas'd which would not be under many Hundreds or perhaps Thousands of Years the Confusions would cease also and the Subsidence and Mechanical Formation be compleated proportionably in the same time and not sooner contrary to my Theory My Answer to this was it seems by me so obscurely express'd that Mr. Keill could not apprehend my meaning Which therefore I shall endeavour to explain more distinctly thus I deny that all the Confusions of a Comet 's Atmosphere are owing to the Heat at the Perihelion and I also affirm That since Astronomers find by