, of RE,LIG.ION. 31 : S~cceffion of Mankind, with a continued Progrefs and Experience this Way; nor can it be; that but of late, one Part of the World is kriown anddifcovered to a-". irother. IV. TkAT fo fhort an Hiftory as ' 1 · we have in the tnqft ancient Records of Titne, · \ve're wholly inconfiftent with - fuch an eternal Duration, or that ii1fi ... nite Ages preceding, Jhould _leave' ·no 1 , Rernembrance to_Pofierity, when fo fn1all a Meafure of 'rime, as:_a few thou- .· fand Years, ' have left fo 1nuch. ·" v~ NoR could ¥en beget Men eter– .nally, }without fgoing back to fon1e firfl: Man_, \V ho could riot beget hiln felf. "_VI. 'f H A<T if Eternity be ·preferable to Time, then ihould not the excellenteft .Being in the ·Earth, Man, be thus cor– ruptible, and only this inanin1ate Mafs of the Earth eternal.. · . . ~ . ' . VII. THAT infinite Ages pafr, tho' tl1ey ihould have bur~ mult iplied _the Race o~Man in an Age, to two or three ~ more, fu\)u1d have co~pe to that at laft, that the wl;lole Precintl: of the Earth could , !lot l,?ffibJy bear the Product of fqch an 1nfin1te Increafe; and no Wars or extra– ordinary Judgments wereever yet know11 to , r \ ,. -- '
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