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CHAP. XVI.
1. Objections must be answered. 2. Our Exposition of Scripture not to be made an Objection by the Theorist, or any that hold with him. 3. The First Objection from the Hills being covered, answered. 4. The Second, from the Arks resting upon the Mountains of Ararat, answered. 5. The Third, from the appearing of the Tops of the Moun∣tains, upon the decrease of the Waters, answered. 6. The Fourth, from the possibility of Mens being saved from the Flood without the Ark, answered. 7. The Fifth, from the likelihood of other Crea∣tures escaping, answered. 8. The Sixth, from the imaginary excess of Water, answered. 9. The Seventh, from the Raven which Noah sent out of the Ark, answered. 10. The Eighth, from dan∣ger of Shipwrack which the Ark would have been in. 11. A General Answer to farther Ob∣jections.
1. WE have seen a New way of explaining the Flood proposed: or a New Hypothesis concerning it erected. We have seen how it is built; upon what Grounds it stands; and with what rea∣sons and considerations it is supported and establisht. But as things that are new and any whit strange, are commonly received with more than ordinary Notice; so new Doctrines, and strange Hypotheses, are usually entertain'd with Disputes and Objections. It will be necessary therefore to look out a little, and to see what Objections are like to meet us in the