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A67686	Geologia, or, A discourse concerning the earth before the deluge wherein the form and properties ascribed to it, in a book intitlued The theory of the earth, are excepted against ... / by Erasmus Warren ...	Warren, Erasmus.	1690 (1690)	Wing W966_VARIANT; ESTC R34720	227,714	369

on the Third Day even before there was a Sun Which as it proves that GOD's special Hand was in the Work and might serve as a Bridle to curb People in their forwardness to idolize the Sun while it is made plain to them that he did not as a DEITY give Being to these thing by any plastick influence of his they existing before himself so it argues withal that the Earth was then grown into a competent Solidity Yea the same Moses goes on and tells the World That by the end of three days more the Earth was made a Dwelling-place for Mankind and in part of it a Paradisiacal one too And this farther bespeaks it to have arrived at such a Temperament as it could never have done so soon in case it had been formed as is above supposed For besides that the Theory allows it to have become dry by degrees after it had done growing it declares That the Body or new Concretion of it was encreased daily being fed and supplied both from above and below pag. 59. At which rate Six Days might easily pass and Six times Six after them and the Earth not be fitted for Habitation 4. And though the Sun was not made as yet the Fourth Day being the first of his existence yet this does not invalidate Moses's Narrative in the least by rendring it absurd or inconsistent with it self when it tells us that the Earth was brought to such maturity on the Third Day For though there was no Sun then yet we are assured there was Light And Providence might so order this Light as to have it supply the place of the Sun in measuring out Time and making Days though not so distinctly as he does And that there should be Light before there was a perfect Sun seems highly agreeable to the Explication of Light by the Cartesian Principles For according to them Light consists in pressione materiae coelestis in a pressure of the celestial matter or in conatu ejus ad motum in its tendency or nitency to motion And therefore if our Vortex or Heaven made up of this Matter were by the first Mover put into such a Circumgyration at the beginning as it now has by virtue of this Gyration the subtile Matter would have been impregnated with a strong conatus or propensity to recede from the Centre of the Vortex according to the Laws of Motion well known in that case And so a faint Light would have been cast through the Vortex at least through the Ecliptick parts thereof though there had been no Sun in the middle of the same And so while the Matter for the Body of the Sun had been in preparing that is grinding off from the particles of the Matter of the Second Element which being made to turn upon their own Axes by mutual collision and incessant attrition rounded one another into Spherical Figures and gathering towards the middle Point of the Vortex and setling there a feeble kind of Light must have shat from those Central parts of the Vortex till the Sun thus a making could have been finisht Which is it might have been in the space of three Days by a great quantity of the purest Matter retiring into the heart of the Vortex which still grew bigger as the Particles of the Second Element had their angulosities worn off and so grew less then on the fourth Day the Sun might shine out in his full strength While by a new Protrusion and brisker Propulsion of the Globular Matter he put a stronger conatus into it than it had before And if there could thus have been Light antecedently to the Sun then how there should be Days and Nights at the same time is easie to conceive admitting the Diurnal Motion of the Earth This I have said not that I belive the Sun was thus produced any more than the Great Philosopher did but to make it appear that the holy Text might be literally true and that to hold there were Days before there was a Sun is so far from being vulgar and ridiculous as some would make it that it is greatly consonant to that which is counted the best Philosophy The Noble Des Cartes so justly admired speaks the same sense though in different words And which peradventure will seem a Paradox to many all these things the Properties of Light would be just thus with the celestial Matter though there were no manner of force in the Sun or in any Star about which it is wheeled So that if the Body of the Sun were nothing else but an empty Space though his Light indeed might not be so strong yet in other respects we should see it no otherwise than now we do at least where the Matter of the Heaven circulates As many as are not pleased with this have liberty to imagine that by the three first anticipative Days more early than the Sun was only meant such certain spaces of time as were commensurate or equivalent to three Days though they were not divided into Diurnal Periods nor otherwise distinguish't than by those Acts of Creation which GOD exerted or the several Creatures which he formed upon each of them So about the Pole where the Sun is in the Horison by Months together and then out of it as long Men may reckon the time by Days though they have them not without any Solecism in their way of compute But not to dwell upon this Point they who believe and consider that there was once an universal darkness 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 over all the Earth for the space of three Hours a long time after the Sun was made may I think be persuaded to believe also that by some means or other there might be three real and distinct Days in the World before he was created 5. But that the whole Creation and consequently the whole Earth was consummated in six days may he proved by one very good Argument the Fourth Precept in the most sacred Decalogue Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath-Sabbath-day Six days shalt thou labour and do all that thou hast to do but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy GOD. In it thou shalt do no manner of work thou and thy son and thy daughter thy man-servant and thy maid-servant thy cattel and the stranger that is within thy gates For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth the sea and all that in them is and rested the seventh day Wherefore the LORD blessed the seventh day and hallowed it Now the Seventh day which by divine Benediction and special Consecration was set apart for the Iewish Sabbath was no other than a Natural Day consisting of Twenty four Hours And the six Days in which God allowed Men to work were of the same quality or duration But then he permitting labour six Days in the Week because in six Days he made Heaven and Earth the Sea and all that in them is and enjoyning a cessation from all manner of work and

ratifie that Promise And no wonder that things extant and common in the World should be made confirmatory Signs of GOD's Promises when things transient and actually past long before and so not to be taken cog●oscence of but by remembrance and things that never did or were to exist till long after his Promises should be accomplisht and so as yet were no real things and to be lookt at only with an eye of Faith have been made such Signs Of the first sort was the Sign of the Prophet Jonas Whose being vomited up of the Whale after three days continuance in its Belly was made a Sign of our SAVIOUR's rising from the dead after his triduous abode in the Holy Sepulchre Though Ionah was swallowed and cast up by the Fish near a thousand years before our LORD's interment and Resurrection Of the latter sort was the miraculous Conception and Birth of the Messiah which was made a Sign of safety promised to Ahaz against Rezin and Pekah but was not brought to pass till above seven hundred and forty years after Other instances of the same kind occur Exod. 3. 12. Isai. 37. 30. 4. But we have a farther proof yet of the existence of the Rainbow before the Flood And though it be but indirect and consequential yet it may not want its weight It is the existence of Clouds then For if they were before the Deluge as they are now there were all causes needful for the production of the Iris which could not but frequently conspire or fall in with one another so as to paint that beautiful thing in the Heavens And that there were Clouds in the first World has been proved already by the same Arguments that evince there was a Sea and Mountains for they imply and necessarily infer the being of Clouds The Flood also was made of Rains in a great measure and those Rains must descend from Clouds And if Nature could produce Clouds then she must be supposed to have done it long before as being in a better capacity to effect it For the Earth and Air could never be more hot and dry than when the Deluge came Scripture also gives countenance to this that Clouds were extant from the beginning When he prepared the Heavens When he established the Clouds above When he appointed the foundations of the Earth Prov. 8. 27 28 29. Whence it appears that GOD's establishing the Clouds was contemporary with his preparing the Heavens and appointing the foundations of the Earth Indeed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 coming of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a word of various significations It may signifie Aether or Air or small Dust. But then the Heavens and the Earth being both mentioned besides Aether Air and fine Dust must be comprized in them which determines the word here to that sense in which it is rendred And very properly for besides that Clouds are said to be the Dust of GOD's Feet Nah. 1. 3. the word in many places of the Holy Volume does denote Clouds and that so directly and inavoidably as it can be applied to no other sense Nor may we forget that clear intimation or evidence rather of the early existence of Clouds Gen. 1. 7. Where the Waters above the Firmament must be Waters in the Clouds as has been already shewed Even the Theory it self allows them not to be Supercelestial Waters For as they are inconsistent with that System of the World which it goes upon so it expresly disputes against them and rejects them And so what Waters else could they be save those in the Clouds Which grant them to have been and how peculiarly were those Clouds above established according to Solomon's word by GOD himself when as yet there was no Sun to exhale them from the Earth Let this be cast in as an Overplus the Rabbies believed there were Rains in Paradise Though for some little time there might be none Gen. 2. 5. For when the LORD GOD put Adam into the Garden to dress it they understand a kind of spiritual Cultivation of it as he occasioned it to flourish by his religious Performances Particularly he presented 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gifts or Oblations for obtaining Rain and a right Influence of the Heavens upon it Yet if there were Clouds and Rain how necessarily must the glorious Bow appear when Showres fell in a just position to the Sun 5. To conclude this Chapter If any thing in it will prove there was a Rainbow or Clouds from the beginning the same will prove Mountains and open Seas And if any thing in the Two precedent Chapters will prove there were Mountains from the beginning the same will prove Seas and Clouds And if any thing will prove open Seas from the beginning the same will prove Clouds and Mountains For these three do mutually imply and depend on one another And there being no good account of their later emergency into Being but much to the contrary they must in reason be thought to coexist from the first And I remember the learned and ingenious Dr. More setting down some odd conceits of Philosophical Enthusiasts puts this amongst the rest That there were no Rainbows before Noah's Flood Discourse of Enthusiasm § 44. CHAP. XIII 1. The Doctrine of Paradise intelligible without the Theory 2. Where that Doctrine is best taught 3. What it is with a brief Paraphrase upon it 4. It is Clear in it self though obscured by Writers 5. Long●evity before the Flood no property of Paradise and might be the Priviledge but of few 6. It could not be common to all according to the Theory 1. THUS at length we come to Paradise A place of greatest Fame and of equal obscurity For though touching it we hear very much yet as to the site of it we know but little And to this Paradise the next Vital or primary Assertion of the Theory relates which runs thus The Doctrine thereof cannot be understood but upon supposition of the aforesaid Primitive Earth and its Properties But against this Assertion also we except and do not doubt but upon enquiry into the Doctrine of Paradise to make it out that it is Intelligible without the help of the Theory At least as intelligible without its Hypothesis as it is with it and that will be sufficient to our purpose 2. Should any demand where the Doctrine of Paradise is best or most truly delivered and what Writings contain the most authentic and credible account concerning it whither could they be directed but to the Sacred Scriptures For what there occurs in reference to the Paradisiacal State or Regions may be firmly grounded upon as infallibly true Whereas what we meet with in some other Books may be incertain as written by Persons of suspected Credit Poets for instance are by no means to be regarded in this matter They are Men of wit and licentious fiction and when they are struck with their proper Oestrum or Rage and grow warm in the vein