The Sacred Theory of the Earth (1690)


The Sacred Theory of the Earth (1690)



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TO THE QUEENS MOST Excellent Majesty

PREFACE TO THE READER

THE THEORY OF THE EARTH
  


CHAP. II

CHAP. III

CHAP. IV

CHAP. V

CHAP. VI

CHAP. VII

CHAP. VIII

CHAP. IX

CHAP. X

CHAP. XI

CHAP. XII

THE THEORY OF THE EARTH
  CHAP. I

CHAP. II

CHAP. III

CHAP. IV

CHAP. V

CHAP. VI

CHAP. VII

CHAP. VIII

CHAP. IX

CHAP. X

A REVIEW OF THE THEORY OF THE EARTH

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THE THEORY OF THE EARTH

BOOK III. Concerning the Conflagration.

CHAP. I

THE INTRODUCTION; With the Contents and Order of this Work.

SEEING Providence hath planted in all Men a natural desire and curiosity of knowing things to come; and such things especially as concern our particular Happiness, or the general Fate of mankind: This Treatise may, in both respects, hope for a favourable reception amongst inquisitive persons; seeing the design of it is, to give an account of the greatest revolutions of Nature that are expected in future Ages: and in the first place, of the Conflagration of the World. In which Universal Calamity, when all Nature suffers, every man's particular concern must needs be involv'd.

We see with what eagerness men pry into the Stars, to see if they can read there the Death of a King, or the fall of an Empire: 'Tis not the fate of any single Prince or Potentate, that we Calculate, but of all Minkind:

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