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A65672	A new theory of the earth, from its original to the consummation of all things wherein the creation of the world in six days, the universal deluge, and the general conflagration, as laid down in the Holy Scriptures, are shewn to be perfectly agreeable to reason and philosophy : with a large introductory discourse concerning the genuine nature, stile, and extent of the Mosaick history of the creation / by William Whiston ...	Whiston, William, 1667-1752.	1696 (1696)	Wing W1696; ESTC R20397	280,059	488

living as I have done While the Earth remaineth seed-time and harvest and cold and heat and Summer and winter and day and night shall not cease And this as to the time past is abundantly confirm'd by all the Ancient History and Geography compar'd with the Modern as is in several particulars well observ'd by Dr. Woodward against the groundless opinions of some others to the contrary CHAP. V. Phaenomena relating to the General Conflagration With Conjectures pertaining to the same and to the succeeding period till the Consummation of all things XC AS the World once perished by Water so it must by Fire at the Conclusion of its present State The heavens and the earth which are now by the word of God are kept in store reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men The heavens shall pass away with a great noise and the elements shall melt with fervent heat The earth also and the works that are therein shall be burnt up In the day of God the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved and the elements shall melt with fervent heat But this is so fully attested by the unanimous consent of Sacred and Prophane Authority that I shall omit other particular Quotations and only refer the Reader where he may have more ample satisfaction SCHOLIUM Having proceeded thus far upon more certain grounds and generally allow'd Testimonies as to the most of the foregoing Phaenomena I might here break off and leave the following Conjectures to the same state of Uncertainty they have hitherto been in But being willing to comply with the Title and take in all the great and general Changes from first to last from the primigenial Chaos to the Consummation of all things Being also loth to desert my Postulatum and omit the account of those things which were most exactly agreeable to the Obvious and Literal sense of Scripture and fully consonant to Reason and Philosophy Being lastly willing however to demonstrate that tho' these most remote and difficult Texts be taken according to the greatest strictness of the Letter yet do they contain nothing but what is possible credible and rationally accountable from the most undoubted Principles of Philosophy On all these accounts I shall venture to enumerate and afterward to account for the following Conjectures In which I do not pretend to be Dogmatical and Positive nay nor to declare any firm belief of the same but shall only propose them as Conjectures and leave them to the free and impartial consideration of the Reader XCI The same Causes which will set the World on Fire will also cause great and dreadful Tides in the Seas and in the Ocean with no less Agitations Concussions and Earthquakes in the Air and Earth The Powers of Heaven shall be shaken The Lord shall roar out of Sion and utter his voice from Jerusalem and the heavens and the earth shall shake The sea and the waves roaring Mens hearts failing them for fear and for looking after those things which are coming on the Earth for the powers of heaven shall be shaken XCII The mtmosphere of the Earth before the Conflagration begin will be oppress'd with Meteors Exhalations and Steams and these in so dreadful a manner in such prodigious quantities and with such wild confused Motions and Agitations That the Sun and Moon will have the most frightful and hideous countenances and their antient splendour will be intirely obscur'd The Stars will seem to fall from Heaven and all manner of Horrid Representations will terrifie the Inhabitants of the Earth I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth blood and fire and pillars of smoke The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the great and terrible day of the Lord come The sun shall be darkened and the Moon shall not give her light and the stars shall fall from heaven and the powers of heaven shall be shaken There shall be signs in the sun and in the moon and in the stars and upon the Earth distress of Nations with perplexity Mens hearts failing them for fear and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth XCIII The Deluge and Constagration are referr'd by ancient Tradition to great Conjunctions of the Heavenly Bodies as both depending on and happening at the same Thus Seneca expresly Berosus says he who was an Expositor of Belus affirms That these Revolutions depend on the Course of the Stars insomuch that he doubts not to assign the very times of a Conflagration and a Deluge That first mention'd when all the Stars which have now so different Courses shall be in Conjunction in Cancer All of them being so directly situate with respect to one another that the same right line will pass through them all together That last mention'd when the same company of Stars shall be in conjunction in the opposite sign Capricorn XCIV The space between the Deluge and the Conflagration or between the ancient state of the Earth and its Purgation by Fire Renovation and Restitution again is from ancient Tradition defin'd and terminated by a certain great and remarkable year or Annual Revolution of some of the Heavenly Bodies And is in probability what the Ancients so often refer'd to pretended particularly to determine and stil'd The Great or Platonick Year This year is exceeding famous in old Authors and not unreasonably apply'd to this matter by the Theorist Which it will better suit in this than it did in that Hypothesis XCV This general Conflagration is not to extend to the intire dissolution or destruction of the Earth but only to the Alteration Melioration and peculiar disposition thereof into a new state proper to receive those Saints and Martyrs for its Inhabitants who are at the first Resurrection to enter and to live and reign a thousand years upon it till the second Resurrection the general Judgment and the final consummation of all things The Heavens being on fire shall be dissolved and the elements shall melt with fervent heat Nevertheless we according to his promise look for new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth Righteousness Behold I create new heavens and a new earth and the former shall not be remembered nor come into mind Verily I say unto you That ye which followed me in the regeneration when the Son of Man shall sit upon the throne of his glory ye also shall sit on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel And every one that hath forsaken houses or brethren or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for my names sake shall receive an hundred fold now in this time houses and brethren and sisters and mothers and children and lands with his present persecutions and in the world to come eternal life Of old thou hast laid the foundations of the earth and the heavens are the work of

creature waiteth for the manifestation of the Sons of God For the creature was made subject to vanity not willingly but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope Because the creature it self also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travelleth in pain together until now XXVII The temper of the Air where our first Parents liv'd was warmer and the heat greater before the Fall than since This appears 1. From the heat requisite to the Production of Animals which must have been greater than we are since sensible of Of which the hot Wombs in which the Foetus in viviparous Animals do lye and the warm brooding of the Oviparous with the hatching of Eggs in Ovens are good evidence 2. From the nakedness of our first Parents 3. From that peculiarly warm cloathing they immediately stood in need of afterwards the Skins of Animals Unto Adam also after the Fall and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins and cloathed them XXVIII Those Regions of the Earth where our first Parents were plac'd were productive of better and more useful Vegetables with less Labour and Tillage than since they have been The Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it before the Fall The Lord God said unto Adam after the Fall Cursed is the ground for thy sake in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee and thou shalt eat the herb of the field In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return unto the ground for out of it wast thou made XXIX The Primitive Earth was not equally Paradisiacal all over The Garden of Eden or Paradise being a peculiarly fruitful and happy soil and particularly furnish'd with the necessaries and delights of an innocent and blessed life above the other Regions of the Earth The Lord God planted a Garden Eastward in Eden and there he put the man whom he had formed And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food the tree of life also in the midst of the garden and the tree of knowledge of good and evil The Lord God sent the Man forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground from whence he was taken So he drove out the man XXX The place of Paradise was where the united Rivers Tigris and Euphrates divided themselves into four streams Pison Gibon Tigris and Euphrates Of this see the fourth Hypothesis before laid down XXXI The Earth in its Primitive State had only an Annual Motion about the Sun But since it has a Diurnal Rotation upon its own Axis also Whereby a vast difference arises in the several States of the World Of this with all its consequents see the third Hypothesis before laid down XXXII Upon the first commencing of this Diurnal Rotation after the Fall its Axis was oblique to the plain of the Ecliptick as it still is Or in other words the present vicissitudes of Seasons Spring Summer Autumn and Winter arising from the Sun's access to and recess from the Tropicks have been ever since the Fall of Man God said on the fourth Day Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night which was their proper office till the Fall And let them be ever after for signs and for seasons and for days and years After the Flood While the Earth remaineth Seed-time and Harvest and Cold and Heat and Summer and Winter and Day and Night shall not cease Implying that tho' the Seasons as well as Night and Day had been during the Deluge scarcely distinguishable from one another yet the former as well as the latter distinction had been in nature before And surely the Spring Summer Autumn and Winter with their varieties of Cold and Heat Seed-time and Harvest were no more originally begun after the Deluge than the succession of Day and Night mention'd here together with them is by any suppos'd to have been But of this we have at large discours'd under the third Hypothesis foregoing already to which the Reader is farther referr'd for satisfaction CHAP. III. Phaenomena relating to the Antediluvian State of the Earth XXXIII THE Inhabitants of the Earth were before the Flood vastly more numerous than the present Earth either actually does or perhaps is capable to contain and supply In order to the proof of this Assertion I observe 1. That the Posterity of every one of the Antediluvians is to be suppos'd so much more numerous than of any since as their lives were longer This is but agreeable to the Sacred History in which we find two at sixty five and one at seventy years of Age to have begotten Children While the three Sons of Noah were not begotten till after their Father's five hundredth year When yet at the same time the several Children of the same Father appear to have succeeded as quickly one after another as they usually do at this day For as to Cain and Abel they appear to have been pretty near of an Age the World being at the death of the latter not without considerable numbers of People tho' their Father Adam was not then an hundred and thirty years old and so in probability contain'd many of the Posterity of both of them Which by the way fully establishes the early begetting of Children just now observ'd in the Antediluvian Patriarchs and if rightly consider'd overturns a main Argument for the Septuagint's Addition of so many Centenaries in the Generations Before and After the Deluge And as to the three Sons of Noah born after the five hundredth year of their Father's Life 't is evident that two of them at the least Japhet and Sem were born within two years one after another All which makes it highly reasonable to suppose that in the same proportion that the Lives of the Antediluvians were longer was their Posterity more numerous than that of the Postdiluvians 2. The Lives of the Antediluvians being pretty evenly prolong'd without that mighty inequality in the periods of humane Life which we now experience the proportion between the Lives of the Antediluvians and those of the Postdiluvians is to be taken as about nine hundred the middle period of their Lives to twenty two the middle period of ours Which is full forty to one And accordingly in any long space the Antediluvians must have forty times as numerous a Posterity as we usually allow with us for the same space on account thereof 3. On account of the Coexistence of so many of such Generations as are but successive with us we must allow the Antediluvian number of present Inhabitants to have been in half an