in itself.) This Perfon hath the Pre-eminence before the Fall, in the Creation,

c. and after, in all things that relate to this Syftem. Matt. xxviii. 18, All Power is given unto me in Heaven and in Earth, fo either he was of the Effence, and only the Administration of that Power by Ceffion was given to him, or (what was impoffible) the Effence was divefted. And this Creature, which, as Adam was, alfo was in the Image of the Aleim, and performed all Righteoufnefs, and was joined to that Perfon, has the Pre-eminence of all Creatures, Col. i. 18, That in all things (among all) he might have the Pre-eminence, because the whole Fulness was pleafed to dwell in him.

That the Subftance of the Names, fo called, because afterwards when formed they were material, mechanical Reprefentations of the Aleim, their Modus of exifting, and of their Actions, was not empty Space, nor eternal, nor infinite, but a created, dry fluid, with Center and Circumference, with its Parts adjoining fo full, that it was inactive had none of the Powers of the Effence in it, had no Power to produce any new Species of Matter, Vegetables, or Creatures, nor any Power of Motion in itself, or Power

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of moving other things, nor any Virtue or Intelligence. That the Names did not form the Earth, but that it was formed by Motion fupported by the Aleim in them, before they were made a mechanical Machine. That the Aleim by their Power first made the Spirit, and made it move, and made it the Inftrument of Impulfe; and next made the Light, and made it move fo as to form an Expansion, a joint Action of two of the Names, thereby to form the Earth, fupport it, &c. That the Waters did not produce the Matter of all things, but were then only mixt with the Atoms of the Earth, till they were separated by the Compreffion of the Expansion. That the Atoms of the Parts of Earth, Water, &c. did not come together out of infinite Space, or a circulating thin Fluid, by a fortuitous Concourse, or by Chance, or by Gravity, but were created in a hollow Sphere, fluid, whofe central Orb was filled with the Substance of the Names. That the loose Parts of the Earth were inactive, had no Power of Motion in themselves, or of moving other things; that they had no Gravity in them, did not fettle to the Places near the Center, which was then, as aforefaid, only full of Air. That they

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did not attract one another, and adhere together in round Lumps, but were separated by the Expansion in the Air, above and below, or without and within; thofe of Earth or Stone, into Strata which compofed a hollow Sphere, between too fuch Spheres of Water, the Air remaining within them next to the Centre. That the Expansion next cracked the Strata, formed Veins of Metal, made Out-lets and Inlets, forced up the included Air, forced down the upper Sphere of Water, and with it, and what it drove along, ploughed the Surface of the Earth into Gills, Dales, Vales, Rivers, Seas, &c. formed the Rubbish it carried down into an Orb at the Center, and between the Rivers, &c. left Mountains, Hills, Ridges, c. through which Cracks, Rivers, &c. the Expansion circulates the Waters of Rains, Springs, &c. that neither the Names acting upon the Earth, nor the Earth itfelf, nor they jointly, had any Power of fpontaneous Production; but the Aleim made the Earth bring forth the proper Species of Matter or Atoms, and made every Genus and Species of Grafs, Plants, and Trees, with Seeds in themselves, fo organized that when they had planted them in the Ground, the Names might

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mechanically raise proper Nourishment out of the Earth, through the Tubes of the Roots, to augment, and of the Seeds to renew the Species. That the Earth was made a Stage and a Storehouse for Men; that the Aleim gave the Grafs, &c. for Food for Beafts, the Trees and Plants for fundry Ufes; the Fruit of Trees and Plants for Food and Phyfick, &c. for Men. That none of them had any Virtue to make Men wife, immortal, or &c. Some Species were made Emblems, one a Sacrament of Immortality; and one which the Aleim forefaw Satan would make a Teft, was forbidden. Befides thefe, fome Species were honoured by being made Emblems, 'Subftitutes, or Memorials of the Covenant, of the Irradiation, &c. And after the Apoftafy, of the feveral Motions or Powers in the Names, &c. that neither the Orbs of, nor the Fluxes of Light from the Sun, Moon, Planets, or Stars, were eternal, or other Worlds, or Suns to other Worlds, nor were to have any Powers to fhew Men 'Signs of Things to come; nor to have any Power or Influence over the Minds or Fortunes of Men; but for the Ufes affigned and expreffed. That they were all formed by the Aleim. That the Orb of the Sun was made a Candle

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ftick to hold the Fire, the third Name, to admit the Spirit, and fend it out in Light, and by them to move and vary the Situation of the Earth, and the other moving Orbs, fo as by the fame Proportion of Light and Spirit, to form Seasons, Days, and Years. That the Orbs of the Moon and great ones, or Planets, were made a fecondary Candlestick, together with the Stars, to reflect the Light; the Substance of the greater Light for an Inftrument to rule the Day; and the Substance of the leffer Light to rule the Night, with the Subftance of the Light of the Stars. That these Orbs not as lighter Parts rolled upwards and placed themfelves, but the Aleim formed and placed them in the Order they continue in, That they are not in a Vacuum, but all in the Fulness and Stress of the Expanfion, the Names, afterwards called the Machine. That the Earth and those which move were not projected nor fet forward by Jogs of Comets, not to be hindered but moved by the Expanfion, the Names, the Machine.

That brute Creatures were not from Eternity, nor at firft, or fince, formed and brought to animal Life by the Names, or Water or Earth, or by them all joint

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