Thoughts for the day of rain. In two essay's

There is an Excellent Ray, who will bring us yet more Light, concerning this wondrous Revolution. According to him, the Windows of Heaven were now Opened, by the Quantities of Water, descending from thence; all the Water Suspended in the Air descending on the Earth. The Fountains of the Great Deep were now also broken up, in that the Subterraneous Waters which communicate with the Sea, did through' great Apertures rush out upon the World. But for the cause of all this, he Supposes, that the Glorious God, now changed the Centre of the Earth, and set it nearer to the Middle of that Hemisphere, which was then principally inhabited! Here-upon the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, must needs press upon the Subterraneous Abyss. By the Mediation thereof, they must force the Water upward, and compel it to run out at those Wide Mouths, which the Indignation of God had made for it. The Water poured out from these direful Orifices, upon the Earth, must needs overflow it; until the Omnipotent God restored the former Centre of the World Finally; The Incomparable Sir Isaac Newton, judges the Universal Flood, cannot have better, and fairer Account given of it, than this, To Suppose the Centre of Gravitation removed for a Time, towards the Middle of the then inhabited Parts of the World: And a change of its Place, but the Two Thousandth ⟨p. 13⟩part of the Radius of this Globe, were enough to bury the Tops of the Highest Mountains under Water. But we have notorious Proofs, in our Subterraneous Occurrences, that the Flood reached unto America too. I add therefore, the same cause operating a little further, would over-whelm this, as well as the other Hemisphere. After all, we may truly say, that there was a concurrence of many Causes, to bring on the Deluge. It is admirable, that Seneca, treating of that Fatal Day, (which he dreamt of, as being still to come,) when a Deluge is to come; He joins together many Causes for such a thing; but all concurring, Uno agmine ad Exitium humani generis. But he does it in such Terms, that the Acute Heidegger cries out; Oratio ita concepta est, ut de industria Explicare voluisse Mosen videri Posset. And Patrick after him; His Words are written, as if he had been directed to make a Commentary upon Moses.

There is an Excellent Ray, who will bring us yet more Light, concerning this wondrous Revolution. According to him, the Windows of Heaven were now Opened, by the Quantities of Water, descending from thence; all the Water Suspended in the Air descending on the Earth. The Fountains of the Great Deep were now also broken up, in that the Subterraneous Waters which communicate with the Sea, did thro' great Apertures rush out upon the World. But for the cause of all this, he Supposes, that the Glorious God, now changed the Center of the Earth, and set it nearer to the Middle of that Haemisphere, which was then principally inhabited! Here-upon the Atlantick and Pacifick Oceans, must needs press upon the Subterraneous Abyss. By the Mediation thereof, they must force the Water upward, and compel it to run out at those Wide Mouthes, which the Indignation of God had made for it. The Water poured out from these direful Orifices, upon the Earth, must needs overflow it; until the Omnipotent God restored the former Center of the World Finally; The Incomparable Sir Isaac Newton, judges the Universal Flood, cannot have better, and fairer Account given of it, than this, To Suppose the Center of Gravitation removed for a Time, towards the Middle of the then inhabited Parts of the World: And a change of its Place, but the Two Thousandth