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i The HISTORY Chap. I.
ferene by the work of the fecond day ; when the
waters were drawn off from the chaos, and dimiff-
ed to their feveral orbs and Rations.
The delightful element of the air was difentan-
gled and extracted from the chaos; anl next day
the waters of the earth being gathered into one
place, the dry land appeared, and was furnifhed
with grafs for cattle, and herbs and fruit-trees for
the nourilhment of man. On the fourth day the
lame divine wifdom created the glorious orbs of the
fun to rule the day, and the moon to rule the
night, and likewile for the meafure and computa¬
tion of time. Thefe great bodies thus fet in or¬
der, he proceeded to the creation of the animat
world ; and began with JiJb and fowl, which the
divine power formed out of fuch matter as was
mixed and concofted with the water, and gave them
a prolific virtue, and a natural inftiafl: for genera¬
tion, to preferve their fpecies, and to multiply
their individuals; a virtue which he alfo bellowed
on the terreftrial animals, both favages, tame crea¬
tures, and creeping things.
All things neceffary for man’s felicity * being
Year of the world r. perfe<5led{ and fo ordered and
Be.ore chuft 4040. difp0fe(] a5 to contribute, in their
feveral capacities, to his benefit and delight, then
* The firft Chriftians computed their time as the na¬
tions among whom they lived, till the year of Chriit
532, when Dionyfius, a Roman abbot, taught them
to compute Irom the birth of Chrift.