There is no room to doubt the Relation which the Mosaic Records have given us, of that astonishing Revolution, The FLOOD, wherein all Mankind, except the One Family of a Righteous Noah, perished. It is a Matter of Fact, whereof the Evidences are so many and so mighty, that they must Overwhelm all the Contradiction of Infidelity, and, like the Flood it self, carry all before them. It was acknowledged by the most Ancient Writers among the Pagans, quoted by Josephus, and by Eusebius, and by Cyril, and others. Plutarch also has the Story of the Dove in the Flood sent out of the Ark. Tis demonstrated likewise by Kirker in his Arca Noae, that the Deucalion of Antiquity was our Noah. Yea, The Tradition of a General Flood, was every where Currant for Thousands of years ⟨p. 8⟩among all People; especially in the Countries near the Place, where the Ark rested after the Flood. Even in the Coins used among them, especially those mentioned by Falconerius, there were Commemorations of it. Martinius reports, that the Chinese have a Tradition of a Flood, in an History very agreeable to ours in the Book of Genesis. Acosta and Herrera find the like Tradition among the Indians of their Acquaintance in America; Corata found it among the Peruvians, and Gomara among the Mexicans. The insolent Attempts of Petrerius, and some others, to restrain the Flood unto Palestine, or to some few Countries thereabouts, are not worthy of a Laborious Confutation. The Ruins and Relics every where sound in the Subterraneous World, which could proceed from nothing but the Flood, (as our Accomplished and Victorious Woodward among the rest, & beyond them all, has rendered incontestable,) abundantly confute the Impiety of those Men▪ and make it most evidently appear, that the Flood was nothing less than Universal. Among the rest, the Undisputed Skeleton of an Humane Body, of about Seventy Foot Long, and his Teeth, some above Two Pounds, and others more than Four Pounds in Weight, lately dug up in our Neighbourhood at Albany, at such a Distance from the Sea, that it could be no Animal of the Sea: This can be no other, than a Lively Proof, brought from America. [How it came hither, Heaven knows!] to go into the Scale with many ⟨p. 9⟩of the same kind in the other Hemisphere, to confirm that passage of Moses, There were Giants in the Earth in those Days. In M. DC. LVI.
There is no room to doubt the Relation which the Mosaic Records have given us, of that astonishing Revolution, The FLOOD, wherein all Mankind, except the One Family of a Righteous Noah, perished. It is a Matter of Fact, whereof the Evidences are so many and so mighty, that they must Overwhelm all the Contradiction of Infidelity, and, like the Flood it self, carry all before them. It was acknowledged by the most Ancient Writers among the Pagans, quoted by Josephus, and by Eusebius, and by Cyril, and others. Plutarch also has the Story of the Dove in the Flood sent out of the Ark. Tis demonstrated likewise by Kirker in his Arca Noae, that the Deucalion of Antiquity was our Noah. Yea, The Tradition of a General Flood, was every where Currant for Thousands of years ⟨p. 8⟩among all People; especially in the Countreys near the Place, where the Ark rested after the Flood. Even in the Coins used among them, especially those mentioned by Falconerius, there were Commemorations of it. Martinius reports, that the Chinese have a Tradition of a Flood, in an History very agreeable to ours in the Book of Genesis. Acosta and Herrera find the like Tradition among the Indians of their Acquaintance in America; Corata found it among the Peruvians, and Gomara among the Mexicans. The insolent Attempts of Petrerius, and some others, to restrain the Flood unto Palaestine, or to some few Countreys thereabouts, are not worthy of a Laborious Confutation. The Ruines and Reliques every where sound in the Subterraneous World, which could proceed from nothing but the Flood, (as our Accomplished and Victorious Woodward among the rest, & beyond them all, has rendred incontestable,) abundantly confute the Impiety of those Men▪ and make it most evidently appear, that the Flood was nothing less than Universal. Among the rest, the Undisputed Skeleton of an Humane Body, of about Seventy Foot Long, and his Teeth, some above Two Pounds, and others more than Four Pounds in Weight, lately dug up in our Neighbourhood at Albany, at such a Distance from the Sea, that it could be no Animal of the Sea: This can be no other, than a Lively Proof, brought from America. [How it came hither, Heaven knows!] to go into the Scale with many ⟨p. 9⟩of the same kind in the other Hemisphere, to confirm that passage of Moses, There were Giants in the Earth in those Dayes. In M. DC. LVI.
