Revelation examined with candour : or, A fair enquiry into the sense and use of the several revelations expressly declared, or sufficiently implied, to be given to mankind from the creation, as they are found in the Bible (1733)
Delany, Patrick, 1685 or 6-1768 · London : Printed for C. Rivington · leaf 243
ill pretendto fay, Why ftones might not be then formed in the earthby thefe laws ; fince we now fee them daily formed in thebodies of living creatures, by laws lefs obvious to our un«.derftandings. Nay poffibly many of thofe (Irata, which are now (lone,were originally clay, now petrified. (See more… … Dissertation XII. Objections to the Mofaic account of thedeluge, and this explication of itconfidered. HE firft is this: fhat man filleats bread in the fweat of hisbrow } and that the earth is ft illmrfed with thorns and thifiles.
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