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id: A27209
author: Beaumont, John, d. 1731.
date: 1694
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title:
  A postscript to a book published last year entituled Considerations on Dr. Burnet's Theory of the earth

summary:
  Gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).


id: A66686
author: Winstanley, Gerrard, b. 1609.
date: 1649
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words: 17414
sentence: 406
flesch: 59
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title:
  The mysterie of God, concerning the whole creation, mankinde To be made known to every man and vvoman, after seaven dispensations and seasons of time are passed over. According to the councell of God, revealed to his servants. By Gerrard Winstanley.

summary:
  Therefore to proceed a little further , that this truth may shine in its own beauty , God does teach me to see , that every action , or dispensation of God , is called a Spirit , or an Angel , and every action , or aspiring principle that rise up in Adam , which led him to disobedience , it pleased God that it should have a Being , and likewise be called a Spirit , but it is a dead Being , and a Spirit of darknesse , quite opposite to the God of Light and Life , and God gives it the name of Serpent , Dragon , Murtherer , wicked one , and unclean Spirit , because it twisted it selfe into the middle of the Creation , and was an aspiring to be like God , but God did not make the nature of it ; for it was the first fruits of a created Being , without God . But now in the third sense , the worke is not yet compleated in the whole Creation ; for God is pleased to doe this worke in length of time , by degrees , calling some at one houre , and some at another , out of the Serpents bondage , and the times and seasons God hath reserved to himself .


id: A03429
author: Hodson, William, fl. 1625-1640.
date: 1640
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words: 16606
sentence: 653
flesch: 73
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title:
  The divine cosmographer; or, A brief survey of the whole world delineated in a tractate on the VIII Psalme: by W.H. sometimes of S. Peters Colledge in Cambridge.

summary:
  S● rightly did Hierome pr●nounce of David to Pa●linus , that he is our Si●nides , Pindarus , Alce● Catullus , and in stead all others . depiction of man standing on a globe with a hand pointing down from a cloud THE DIVINE COSMOGRAPHER by 〈…〉 Quum te pendenti reputa●… insi●tere terrae nonne vel hinc clar● conspici●… 〈◊〉 ●●um ? Printed for Andrew Crooke . 1640.


id: A65674
author: Whiston, William, 1667-1752.
date: 1698
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words: 18938
sentence: 469
flesch: 52
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title:
  A vindication of the new theory of the earth from the exceptions of Mr. Keill and others with an historical preface of the occasions of the discoveries therein contain'd, and some corrections and additions.

summary:
  Only before I pass on , I cannot but take notice of a great mistake of Mr. Keill's about the quantity of Heat in the primitive Earth from my Hypothesis , which he reckons some hundred of times as great as in the present State : which I am sure must be a plain Error , and all its Consequences , which he from thence draws against me , without any foundation . Miles of dry Earth are capable of receiving 3 or 4 Miles of Water into 'em : and certainly the same Fissures which permitted the ascent of the Fluids from beneath before , would after the ceasing of that force permit the descent of the Waters of the Deluge ; and by degrees in length of time draw them off , and so leave the Earth as it now appears to us .


id: A30486
author: Burnet, Thomas, 1635?-1715.
date: 1691
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sentence: 777
flesch: 70
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title:
  A short consideration of Mr. Erasmus Warren's defence of his exceptions against the theory of the earth in a letter to a friend.

summary:
  This is a weak and vain attempt to defend his notion ; for , besides that this distinction of Maritime and Inland Mountains , as arising from different causes , and at different times , is without any ground , either in Scripture or reason : if their different origin was admitted , the Sun 's extracting these Inland Mountains out of the Earth , would still be absurd and incongruous upon other accounts . I would gladly know then , how his Hypothesis of the motion of the Earth , is regulated by Scripture , and by the letter of it .


id: A60647
author: Smith, William, d. 1673.
date: 1661
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sentence: 184
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title:
  The nevv-creation brought forth, in the holy order of life wherein the immortal birth is revealed, and the precious pearl, out of the mixture extracted ... / from ... William Smith.

summary:
  〈◊〉 he cannot so delight in them as he hath done in times 〈◊〉 , but begins to be serious , and to wait in the Light which ●oth discover them , to see if he may be preserved from ●…em ; for he sees them to be evil , and that they do defile 〈◊〉 , and are an heavy burden unto him , and a sore weight ●pon him ; and by attending to the Light , and obeying the light which makes them manifest , he receives some power against them , and begins to get some victory over them ; and ●…ough Man in this state have little acquaintance with the light , yet there is a true turning to it , according to the ●●nifestation of it , and the knowledge that is then given by it ; and so far a true Conversion is wrought , as Man turns ●●om the Evil , unto the Light which makes the Evil manifest , and Man hath forsaken much Evil in obedience to the light ; and hath ceased from much Vanity that sometimes ●e hath lived in , and departs out of the unclean path of com●…on Prophanesse ; and those things that once was lovely to 〈◊〉 , are now become loathsom ; and he ceaseth from Drun●…ness , and superfluities in Meats and Drinks , which he hath been accustomed to , and from Lying and Swearing , and ●…gious Apparrel , in which he sometimes hath lived with ●elighting ; and that which worketh this Change , and begets a Man some Moderation , it is the pure Light of the holy Seed , which never had pleasure in Man , as he is exercised in the things that are evil ; so hath it ever found Man out to convince him ; and as he obeys it , there is a Cord of Love ●ast about him , to draw him and convert him ; and here the lord worketh the Conversion , and Man is converted : and into this state have many come , who with the Light have be●… convinced , and also from many evil and prophane things converted , and yet from the bands of death have never perfectly been loosed , but have been still kept in the house of bondage , and the Serpent hath wrought deceivably to betray Man into another thing , and bath laboured to lead him forth into some Profession , where he walketh like a Sober man , and a Moderate man , to what he hath been in times past , and he comes into a fairer shew than when he first lived in the common prophaneness ; and when the Serpent hath drawn his mind hither , and hath brought him into some fair shew of Godliness , and Man sees that he is much reformed in his Evil wayes and courses that sometimes he walked in , he begins to neglect the Light in his own Conscience , and to follow his Profession that the Serpent hath drawn his mind unto , and hath set up without him , and Man draws his Contentment from what he professeth , and with this false Conception that the Serpent hath generated in the Imagination he hath deceived many , and caused them to erre from the right way ; and Man hath gone from the Light after he hath been convinced with it , and also turned from many evil things by it , and hath become the greatest Enemy to it ; for it is the hardest to renew such a man , who hath been once enlightned , and for a time hath had some enclination towards it , and hath known something done by it , and then turns from it , he becomes the hardest and turns most against it , and quenches and stops the power of it , that he comes not to be a Regenerated Man , nor to know the New Birth born , in which the holy Order of the pure Creation stands ; but the Serpent hath brought form his many Births and Likenesses , whose deformity and impurity hath marred the true Births Beauty , so as little Comliness hath appeared in him that he should be desired ; and here the many Wayes and many Religions are come up , and many things that are prophane they are denied , and the Scriptures they are professed , and with this fair shew are many satisfied ; yet doth the Light of Christ in Mans Conscience search after him in ●his Professing-state , and though now it do not appear against him as a Drunkard , or a Swearer , yet it appears against him as a Will-worshipper , and a Time-server , and a Man-pleaser , and against his Double-mindedness , Unstableness , and Hypocrisie , and with its pure quallity finds it all out , and searches through the fallen properties , in which the Serpent generates his profession , and brings forth the birth of it ; and though there be a seeming difference betwixt Prophaness and such a shew of Godliness , their generation is in the womb , and they receive their nourishment out of the mixture of the fallen properties , which are in a Chaos of confusion , and is Mother , Mystery Babylon , in which there is no true order ; so that the Prophaness and the profession of Godliness are both defiled , and with the Light that is pure they ●●e both condemned : This is truly the state of many , and thus far have many come , and never could get further , who have taken up their Rest in the formal Profession , where there is neither Relief nor Satisfaction , and have not endured the ●●ght of Affliction after they have been enlightned , but have gone from the Gate that is called Strait , which is near to the Pool of Healing , and have not patiently waited until he hath come to bid them take up their bed and walk ; they could not lie and 〈◊〉 , but have strugled away , though lame and impotent , and have gone from the Gate , called Strait , and have stragled into the way that is broad , and there are got over the Crosse , and have healed themselves in a false liberty , which stands in a seeming shew of Godliness ; and in this state there is yet a travel in a strange Land , and something breatheth after i● Native Country , where no Corruptible Mixture is ; and with the Light Man in this state is searched , and his deceitful heart discovered , out of which proceedeth both the Prophaness and Profession of Godliness ; and with the Light his heart opens , and he comes to see that his heart is not upright before the Lord , neither is his heart the same with his Profession , but feigned humility and hypocrisie lodgeth in it , and the Light smites him and corrects him , both for his Profession and for his Prophaness ; then Man comes to see himself miserable , and to behold both his own Righteousness and filthiness , to rise out of the Mixtures of the fallen properties , and sees himself in the weakness of the Corruptible Being , and there he is sensible of the correcting hand of the Lord , though he hath denyed much Prophaness , and be turned into a Profession of Godliness , and Man comes to see that he is sucking a fruitless fountain , and a dry breast , and so comes to minde the Light and wait in it , and it ariseth and pulleth down his strong Holds , and layeth his fenced Cities waste , and brings to nought the Glory of his fair shews , and stains the Pride of them ; and he comes to see that those things which he is observing without him cannot bring contentment to him , but still the Light searches him , and pursues him , and layes many sore and heavy stripes upon him , and also sets his sins in order before him , and lets him see what a great body they are gendered in , which makes him cry in his misery , Who shall deliver me ? and he comes to be sensible of his own Insufficiency , and to know that without Christ he is miserable for ever , and that without Christ he can do nothing ; and so sees that all without him are miserable Comforters , and that there is no help to be found in them when there is need ; and then he something more enclines to the Light within him , and is diligent unto it , and begins to hearken and obey , and to turn to it and minde it , and to wait to feel its motion ; and as it doth convince him of Evil , he hath regard unto it , and yeelds himself to obey , and to deny that which it doth convince him of , and then comes to feel that it leads him out of it , and also destroyes it , and takes it away ; and hereby Man comes to be satisfied that it is the Truth of God , and the way wherein he ought to walk , and he waits to feel its drawing , and it turns his face towards it , and begets a willingness to give up to follow it ; and so Man is not now only convinced , but also converted and turned , both from common Prophaness , and also from his seeming shew of Godliness ; and he becomes a follower of the Light , and to deny himself in many things that the Light makes manifest to be Evil ; and in the Leadings of the Light he is kept in the Cross to his Corruptible will , and walketh in the strait gate and narrow way , and feels something of the Power to crucifie and remove many fleshly Lusts , that have made War against his Soul , whereby he comes to feel that he is somewhat eased , and much weight taken off and removed , which had been upon him , and a sore burden unto him ; and something begins to spring in the Deliverance that cryed for it ; and when the Light hath thus found Man , and Man is turned unto it , and that he cannot abide any longer , either in Prophaness , or seeming shew of Godliness ; but presseth in the Light to come wholly out of the Mixtures of the fallen properties , to come into the holy Order of the pure Creation ; then doth the Serpent strive in his Subtilty to hold Man in some part of the Mixture , that so he may in something yet keep dominion over him , and that he may not be set wholly free , but may serve him still in something , though he have truly denyed many things : And hence it is that many stick in the Birth , who are convinced what is Truth , and also in many things converted , and yet feel not true Freedom wrought , but are sensible of a Travel that cryes after a day of Deliverance ; and here hath the Serpent deceived many , who have been convinced , and have had true openings and clear discoveries in the manifestation of the Light , and not being watchful , the Serpent hath stepped in , and with his deceitful working he hath beguiled Man , as he beguiled Eve , and with the same fruit hath tempted , and over many hath prevailed , and hath drawn many minds in the openings to reach forth in the eagerness to satisfie his lustful desire in the knowledge of Gods Truth ; and this hath shut the Womb upon the Babe that tryes for deliverance , and so the Judgment hath been fled , and the Crosse hath been denyed , and a false liberty out of the fear hath got up , and it hath gendered unto sore bondage ; and though the Truth be confessed unto , and professed in practice , yet doth the Seed lye in bondage under the puffed-up mind , that the Serpent hath filled with knowledge , in which he hath generated a Body , and brought forth a false Birth , whose neck is stiff , and the heart hard , and will not bow unto the Lord , nor be subject to his Power , but in knowledge stands exalted , under which the true Birth is oppressed , and the beauty of it marred by the false Generation of the Serpents begetting , which rises out of the Mixture and receives its body from the Earthly part of the fallen properties ; and Man having seen the Truth in the Openings , and the vain mind being filled with the knowledge of it , he takes root in the Earthly , and in the Earthly he begins to grow and spread forth his branches with a fair and flourishing shew ; and this Earthly body that is thus conceived and generated , and likewise nourished in the Mixture of the fallen properties , gets a tincture of Truth upon it in the Openings , as Lead may be covered or tinn'd with pure Gold ; and this Body beareth a fair shew , and appears exceeding glorious , but is not the Glory of the only Begotten ; and when this is brought forth through the deceitful working of the old Serpent , then he labours to nourish it that it may grow in strength , and be a tall man , and a strong man , and be renownable ; and this being desirable , it hath been eagerly pursued , and knowledge hath encreased , and a great growth there hath been in it ; and Man hath waxed into a high stature of it , and hath sprung up in height like a Cedar in Labanan , and hath grown in the body of knowledge like an Oak in Bashan ; and under this high and mighty growth of knowledge , hath the little breathing Innocency been strangled , and sore burdened and oppressed , and hath still been striving underneath in the meckness and humbleness , and hath oft reached the tall Cedar to bring it down , and to the strong Oak , to make it bend ; but the Cedar would not lose its glory , nor the Oak part with its strength , but stoutly have stood , yea , and stubbornly resisted the tender Innocency , and have cast off the Word of its Reproof ; and the tall Cedar hath been lifted up , and hath said , who shall rule over me ? and the Oak it hath been stubborn , and hath said , Who shall cause me to bow ? VVHen Man had transgressed and sinned against the Power and Wisdom of God , and was driven out of Paradise , and fenced from the Tree of Life , he became a servant to the Subtilty , and followed his leadings downward , and turned a Wanderer in the Earth , where the Serpent led him in dark corners , and in dry paths ; and Man being joyned unto him , he became an Enemy unto God , and full of Cruelty in the Serpents Enmity unto every thing that was good ; and the treacherous Enemy wrought deceivably to keep Man under his Dominion , into which he had drawn him with his enticing temptations ; and when any thing arises and breathes towards the Lord , he standeth ready with his devouring mouth to swallow it up and destroy it ; and he having the dominion over Man , he makes him bow at his will , and with his subtil working , keeps him in the Earthly habitations , and Earthly paths , into which he hath drawn him , and there holdeth him in the Separation from God that made him , and leadeth him about in the dark Imaginations of the Earthly part , and there doth beget and generate the things that be evil and sinful ; so that Man is become deformed , and hath lost that pure Image in which he was created , and is turned into the Serpents beastly nature , and is acted and ordered by his unclean spirit , that bringeth forth the deeds of darkness , and leadeth Man to commit sin with greediness ; and Man having lost the Authority in which he ruled over the Creatures , he is fallen under the power of darkness , and the Serpent hath weakned him , and set the Creatures over him , and then leads him to commit evil in the use of the Creatures , and Mans heart being run into them , and become subject to them , he is taken Captive with them at the will of the Serpent ; and hence it is that Drunkennesse and Gluttony , Pride and Covetousnesse is come to rule over Man , and the Devil hath him Captive in them , and he neither knoweth what to eat , nor what to drink , nor what to put on , nor how much Earthly Substance to desire , the Serpent hath so drawn his heart to lust after Evil , and he is alwayes willing , but never satisfied , that when he hath received sufficiently of the Creatures for his present need , yet he lusteth to receive more , and the lustful desire still presseth eagerly , not being contented with so much as is needfull ; so a Man drinketh in his need and is refreshed , but the Lust not being therewith satisfied , the Devil provokes the Will to presse after more , and when Man gives way to the Lust , and follows the Lust , he follows the Devil who is the father of it , and therein he serves the Devil ; and being overcome with the Lust , he is in bondage to it ; and when the Will gets forth in the fleshly liberty , the Devil puts it speedily forward into Excess , and Mans Lust is not satisfied until he have received so much of the Creatures , as deprives him of the right use of the natural faculties of the visible Creation , and turns him wholly into the Serpents beastly nature , who in that state rejoyceth over him : and here the Devil hath his Dominion , and hath brought Man under him , and under the Creatures , which he had dominion over in the pure Creation ; so the heart lusteth after Drinking until a Man be drunk , and lusteth after Eating until a Man be glutted , and that he doth not know what to eat , and he is become a servant to obey the Devil's movings , who leads him and acteth him in those things which he begetteth in him , and centring the mind downward he leadeth Man in the lowest parts of the Earth , and there generateth a lustful desire after Earthly things ; so that Man coveteth after the Earth , and after the profits that arise from it ; and as it doth encrease , so the heart is more in love with it , and the Lust eagerly pursues after more enjoyment of it ; and this is the Covetous man in his way , the Devil perswades him he hath not yet enough ; such a thing he wants , and when he hath obtained that , then the Devil hath another ready to present unto him , and he thirsteth after that , and presseth eagerly to enjoy it , and there is no end of his lustful desire that runs in the Covetousness ; and hence ariseth all Deceit , Fraud and Guile , because the Covetous desire in the Lust watcheth to improve it self , and to get some advantage by it , so that one Man defrauds another , and cheats and beguiles one another , because the lustfull desire in which the Devil worketh , coveteth after unlawfull gain , thereby to be made Rich , and come into Esteem amongst Men , and so to be set up in Honour and Dignity in the world ; and when he comes so to be preferred amongst Men , yet he is not contented , but lusteth after greater Honour , and still to be promoted and set up in higher Dignity ; and here Man comes into the Honour below , but doth not understand the Honour that is of God , and so is like the Beast that perisheth ; and this Honour puffeth up the Man , and exalteth him in the Pride of his heart ; and as the Earthly Substance encreaseth , so Man is esteemed and honoured amongst Men , and the Rich are preferred , and the Poor they are contemned and despised , and then the Rich exercise Lordship over the Poor ; and the Devil he works in the lustful desire , to seek after Respect , and to be honoured amongst Men , and in the 〈◊〉 of the People , and the heart it is puft up with it , and if it be not given as he expects it , then the Devil provokes the l●st to Anger ; and here came in the Respect of Persons , and ●…ing , and Cringing , and Scraping , and putting off the Hat 〈◊〉 respect of the Person , who hath made himself Rich by dis●…st gain , and is set up to rule by his Earthly substance , and 〈◊〉 by the Power of God ; and this is the Generation of the Devil , as Man is in the Separation from God , for in the beginning it was not so ; and here Man is willing , and lusting , and striving after Riches and Honour , and a worldly Glory , and all seeking who should be greatest , and set up highest that they may rule over others ; and when they are set up , then they exercise Lordship over others , and expect Subjection from all Men unto their Power ; and when there is something that cannot bear that , there the Devil worketh and provoketh to Anger , and Envy , and Malice , and Hatred , and Evil-will , because one he would be Ruler , and another he would not be Ruled over ; then the Devil worketh in the dark places of the Earth , and there stirs up Cruelty one towards ●other , and setteth one against another ; and neither he that Ruleth , nor he that is Ruled over , are contented with their Places , but a strife there is who should be greatest ; thence comes Wars and Contentions , and destroying and killing one another , the Devil having Rule he provokes man to be Angry and Envious , and Malicious , and generates in the Lustful Will that seeketh after Revenge ; and this is the nurthering spirit , that hath its course through the dark places of the Earth , that is full of Cruelty , and hath drawn the mind of Man after him , and hath begotten in him the many Lusts , from which the many Sins and Evils do arise and are brought forth , that are contrary to the pure God , who in the beginning made all things good ; and the Divil hath generated in Man a Kingdom of Darkness , and there hath set up himself as a Prince , and in his subtilty ruleth over Man , and what he willeth in the Lust that is performed , and under his power is Man captivated , and the many evils committed ; and it is not so with Man in that state as it was in the beginning , but the Serpent hath deformed him , and hath begotten many lustfull desires in him , and he eagerly thirsteth after the visible part of the Creation , whereby he hath lost his Union with the pure Power and Wisdom of God , in which he was created good , and is gone into the Corruptibles , and bringeth forth corruptible deeds , which presseth the pure Creation , and keepeth it in bondage , and daily increaseth the weight upon it ; so that the Creation groanes and is in sore travail and pain , and the Devil and his work is come up over it ;


id: A30484
author: Burnet, Thomas, 1635?-1715.
title: A review of The theory of the earth and of its proofs, especially in reference to Scripture
date: 1690
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summary:
  But before we proceed any further , give me leave to note the impropriety of our Translation , in the 5th . Verse , or latter part of it ; 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ( vel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , This we translate standing in the water , and out of the water , which is done manifestly in compliance with the present form of the Earth , and the notions of the Translators : and not according to the natural force and sence of the Greek words . The opposition lies betwixt the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Heavens that were of old , and the Earth , and the present Heavens and Earth , or the two natural Worlds .


id: A25742
author: Apsley, Allen, Sir, 1616-1683.
date: 1679
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mime: application/xml
words: 23037
sentence: 1187
flesch: 81
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title:
  Order and disorder, or, The world made and undone being meditations upon the creation and the fall : as it is recorded in the beginning of Genesis.

summary:
  God for his worship kept one day of seven , The other six to man for mans use given ; Adam , although so highly dignified , Was not to spend in idle ease and pride Nor supine sleep , drunk with his sensual pleasures , Profusely wasting th' Empires sacred treasures , As now his faln sons do , that arrogate His forfeited dominion , and high state ; But God his dayly Business did ordain That Kings , hence taught , might in their Realms maintain Fair order , serving those whom they command , As guardians , not as owners of the land , Not being set there , to pluck up and destroy Those plants , whose culture should their cares employ . Here life almost to its perfection grew While God these various creatures did indue With various properties , and various sense , But little short of humane excellence , Save what we in the Brutes dispersed find , Is all collected in mans nobler mind , Who to the high perfection of his sense , Hath added a more high intelligence .


id: A40386
author: Franck, Richard, 1624?-1708.
date: 1687
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words: 31633
sentence: 686
flesch: 41
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title:
  A philosophical treatise of the original and production of things writ in America in a time of solitudes by R. Franck.

summary:
  But God that made them , and still maintains them ; because willing that Man above all created Beings should read daily Lectures in their glorious frontispiece , inspired him to contemplate their internal purity ; which indubitably points some of them signa●●y out as Guides , and Land-marks to light us up to his more sublime , and superlative Habitation . So God assignes it our duty to study the Creation , since discovering things to us by invisible Mediu●●s ; but not that we by a foreign faith pay our Orisons and our Adorations unto them :


id: A57681
author: Ramazzini, Bernardino, 1633-1714.
date: 1697
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flesch: 53
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title:
  The Abyssinian philosophy confuted, or, Tellvris theoria neither sacred not agreeable to reason being for the most part a translation of Petrus Ramazzini, Of the wonderful springs of Modena : illustrated with many curious remarks and experiments by the author and translator : to which is added a new hypothesis deduced from Scripture and the observation of nature : with an addition of some miscellany experiments / by Robert St. Clair ...

summary:
  Iulius Caesar Recupitus tells , in his History of the burning of Vesuvius , that at the same time it did send forth two Streams , one of Fire towards the shoar , another of Water on the other side that looks to the Plain of Nola , the Fire not only keeping time with the Waters , but also producing them : For 't is to be thought that by force of the violent Heat diffus'd over the Mountains , so great a quantity of Waters was exhaled from some Cistern that held the Sea-water , that it was sufficient for making a Torrent . That though the height of the water be the same in the Vessel , and the same Horizontal Pipe be inserted into it ; yet in the perpendicular Pipes , according to the difference of their Situation , there is a notable difference of the altitude of the water in one and the other , as in Fig. 7. Let the Vessel A B C D be full of Water , the Pipe D H be inserted into it , and shut in the Extremity , and let F G H I be the Glass Pipes erected perpendicularly , but M the Pipe pouring out water .


id: A57471
author: Robinson, Thomas, d. 1719.
date: 1696
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sentence: 1102
flesch: 52
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title:
  New observations on the natural history of this world of matter, and this world of life in two parts : being a philosophical discourse, grounded upon the Mosaick system of the creation and the flood : to which are added some thoughts concerning paradise, the conflagration by Tho. Robinson ...

summary:
  From these Praeliminary Instances , and a great many more Ocular Observations which might easily be produc'd , I conclude , that as the several Forms of Vegetables , were disseminated in the upper Covers of the Earth ; so were the Specifick Forms of several kinds of Fish [ as well those which the Natu●alists call Pelagiae , as those they call L●turales ] desseminated in the Wa●●r● , or Submarine and fresh-water Quicksands ; and as the Water receiv'd higher D●grees of Modific●tion , they produc'd Fish of a higher Degree of Life , in obedience to that Command laid upon them , Let the Waters bring forth abundantly . [ as they call it ] the Vapours are drawing down with the Evening Cold , and the next Morning Cold condenseth them into Clouds , which the next Day fall down in Showers of R●●n about Twelve a Clock .


id: A58185
author: Ray, John, 1627-1705.
date: 1691
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 56706
sentence: 1492
flesch: 55
cache: cache/A58185.xml
txt: txt/A58185.txt
title:
  The wisdom of God manifested in the works of the creation being the substance of some common places delivered in the chappel of Trinity-College, in Cambridge / by John Ray ...

summary:
  The Natures and Divisions of Bodies p. 41 , 42 , 43. Again , though the Water being a cold Element , the most wise God hath so attempered the blood and bodies of Fishes in general , that a small degree of heat is sufficient to preserve their due consistency and motion and to maintain Life ; yet to shew that he can preserve a Creature in the Sea , and in the coldest part of the Sea too , that may have as great a degree of heat as Quadrupeds themselves ; he hath created great variety of these Cetaceous Fishes , which converse chiefly in the Northern Seas , whose whole Body being encompassed round with a copious Fat or Blubber ( which , by reflecting and redoubling the internal heat , and keeping off the external cold , doth the same thing to them that Cloths do to us ) is enabled to abide the greatest cold of the Sea-water .


id: A50400
author: Gearing, William.
date: 1668
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 56733
sentence: 1487
flesch: 63
cache: cache/A50400.xml
txt: txt/A50400.txt
title:
  The beauty and order of the creation together with natural and allegorical meditations on the six dayes works of the creation : with the addition of two compendious discourses : I. of the creation of man after the image of God, II. of the creation of angels, with a description of their several properties / by ... Mr. John Maynard ... ; published by William Gearing ...

summary:
  If thou hadst Meat , Drink , & Money eno●gh , thou wouldest fear no want , but the l●ck ●f these maketh thee di●trustfull : Alas ! But th●se 〈◊〉 are the very same wit●ou● succ●ssi●n & t●●●efore the Heav●ns in sp●cial man 〈◊〉 do s●t 〈◊〉 the glory of God : the Sun and the Moon which God hath ordained , are in a special manner to be h●●ded , that we may s●riously c●nsider of the Lord , whose immediate workm●nship they are .


id: A27207
author: Beaumont, John, d. 1731.
date: 1693
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 67026
sentence: 1478
flesch: 47
cache: cache/A27207.xml
txt: txt/A27207.txt
title:
  Considerations on a book, entituled The theory of the earth, publisht some years since by the Dr. Burnet

summary:
  'T is true , they often talk of an Alternation , of Deluges and Conflagrations in this Earth , but they speak of them as things to come ; at least they give no Proof or Argument of any that have already destroy'd the World. Indeed , it may be that this or that little part of the Earth , drain'd by long culture and sowing may decay , but not the whole Earth ; neither does any little part of it ever so decay , as things which really grow old ; so that it can never after resume its strength , and , as it were , wax young again ; but all things pass away and return in a certain Circle , according to all and each of their parts , according to all , by vicissitudes , some being decay'd , others render'd more fertile ; according to each , each of them being alternately decay'd and restor'd .


id: A89280
author: More, Henry, 1614-1687.
date: 1653
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 75110
sentence: 2560
flesch: 66
cache: cache/A89280.xml
txt: txt/A89280.txt
title:
  Conjectura cabbalistica or, a conjectural essay of interpreting the minde of Moses, according to a threefold cabbala: viz. literal, philosophical, mystical, or, divinely moral. By Henry More fellow of Christs College in Cambridge.

summary:
  And this sense or interpretation of the Law or Pentateuch , as it is a doctrine received by Moses first , and then from him by Joshua , and from Joshua by the seventy Elders , and so on , it was called Cabbala from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 kibbel to receive : Diodorus has placed him in the head of his Catalogue of the most famous Law-givers under the name of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , if Iustin Martin be not mistaken , or if he be , at least he bears them company that are reputed the best , reserv'd for the last and most notable instance of those that entituled their Laws divine , and made themselves spokesmen betwixt God and the People .


