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veracity of Moses , considered as the historian of the deluge , by an appeal to the chalk hills of this country ; the strata of which are in some instances stated to be six hundred and fifty feet ' thick .
It thould be kept in mind , however , that the rains fell , only forty days and forty nights , and that the whole period from the commencement of rh < flood , till the conclusion , when ' * the waters
were dried up from off the earth ' was only 318 days : a space of time which 1 apprehend few Geo . logics will consider sufficient for the formation of 4 * mountain
limestone or other calcareous rocks by subsidence in water . " As it aware of this difficulty , the rector of Pevvsey conjectures that the term days in scripture , may mean periods i of an indefinite duration : this conjecture , however , appears
to be perfectly unfounded ; for it is distinctly stated that ' in the six hundredth year of Noah ' s life , were all the fountains of the great deep broken up , and the windows of heaven were opened . " And , that in " the six hundredth and
first year , was the earth dried . " An aniideluvian year has some , times been considered shorter , but I believe , never longer than a year of our present calendar .
But it is said that the proofs are palpable , that much of our habitable globe has been , once , covered with water . Granted . Yet this admission proves nothing with
respect to the deluge , as recorded by Moses . Whether that deluge was universal , does not seem well ascertained : ( he object to be accomplished was the destruction of
a people who inhabited the neighbourhood of the Tigris and the Euphrates . But it is not clear
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that it would be necessary to de . luge the American continent , in order to destroy the people of Asia . We have , however , an account of an universal deluge , competent to the production of all the effects which have been ascribed to the flood , from which Noah and his family escaped . i allude to the account of the state of this globe ( as given in the first chapter of Gent sis . ) before the vt waters
were gathered together . * " And the earth was without form and void , and darkness was upon the face of the detpSy * c And God said let the waters under the heaven be gathered together , unto one place , and let the dry land appea ?*"— Ci And God called the dry land earth . "
We are not told how long this globe was / ' wkhout / form and void , " presenting only the dark face of its waters : this might have
been its state for an indefinite length of time , for it is possible that what we call the creation , was only a regenera ion of things ; the converting of Chaos into order ;
and that harmonious distribution of earth and water which we may suppose took place when the Almighty commanded the ocean , * ' Iluherto shall thou come , but no further ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed , " H . B .
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Egyptian Writing . 537
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Egyptian Writing . Sir ,
In a very ingenious paper on the Fall of Man , page 392 of your valuable Repository , 1 rind the following passage : 44 We have reason to believe that Moses was the first amongst the Israelites who made use of
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1814, page 537, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2444/page/13/
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