Rare Books

Dissertations on the Mosaical creation, deluge, building of Babel, and confuson of tongues, &c. : I. Against modern Infidels; shewing, that Moses justly declares the whole universe, matter and form, to have been created by God: his authority, both as a human and divine legislator: that the Mosaical account, Gen. i. contains nothing contrary to natural philosophy: explications of it, verse by verse: where, of the powers of the air; of the expansion; of the production of light; of the waters above the firmament; of the fable of the Preadamites, against Peirerius; of the obligation of the Sabbath from the beginning, against Monsieur Jurieu: that the material elements were not the original gods of the gentiles, against Monsieur Le Pluche: the origin of idolatry, and what the heathen gods were originally: that the God of the Jews was not a mere local and tutelar God, against some moderns: of the existence of spirits, good and bad, and their apparitions: why devils called hairy-Ones, &c. II