The Sacred theory of the earth : containing an account of the original of the earth and of all the general changes which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo, till the consumation of all things (1719)
Burnet, Thomas, 1635?-1715 · London : Printed for John Hooke · leaf 115
But to lee all thefe intheir firft Seeds, as I may fo fliy ; to take inpieces this Frame of Nature, and melt it down.into its firft Principles j and then to obfervehow the Divine Wifdom wrought all tbefethings out of Confufion into Order, and outof Simplicity into that beautiful Compofitionwe now… … ^ The Deluge and Diffolution of the Earth. 75will firft make a fliort Reprefentation of theChaos, and then lliew, how, according toLaws eftabliflit in Nature by the Divine Pow-er and Wifdom, it was wrought by degreesfrom one Form into another, till it fettled atlength into an habitable Earth ; and…
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