THE

WORKS

OF

SIR WALTER RALEGH, KT.

NOW FIRST COLLECTED :

TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED

THE LIVES OF THE AUTHOR,

BY OLDYS AND BIRCH.

IN EIGHT VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD.

BOOK I.

OXFORD,

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

MDCCCXXIX.

Of the creation and preservation of the world.

Sect. I. That the invisible God is seen in his creatures.

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Sect. II. That the wisest of the heathen, whose authority is not

to be despised, have acknowledged the world to have been

created by God.

Sect. III. Of the meaning of In principio, Genes. i. 1.

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Sect. IV. Of the meaning of the words heaven and earth, Genes.

i. I.
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Sect. V. That the substance of the waters, as mixed in the body

of the earth, is by Moses understood in the word earth; and

that the earth, by the attributes of unformed and void, is`de-

scribed as the chaos of the ancient heathen.
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Sect. VI. How it is to be understood, that the Spirit of God

moved upon the waters; and that this is not to be searched

curiously.

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Sect. VII. Of the light created, as the material substance of the

sun, and of the nature of it, and difficulty of knowledge of it;

and of the excellency and use of it: and of motion, and heat

annexed unto it.

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Sect. VIII. Of the firmament, and of the waters above the firma-

ment: and whether there be any crystalline heaven, or any

primum mobile.

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Sect. IX. A conclusion, repeating the sum of the works in the

creation, which are reduced to three heads: the creation of

matter, the forming of it, the finishing of it.

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Sect. X. That nature is no principium per se; nor form, the giver

of being and of our ignorance how second causes should have

any proportion with their effects.

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