interferes not with Locke's sentiments of mere finite duration, with which we fully concur. (4.) In addition to those already introduced, there are several authors whose great and valuable researches, if here considered, would vastly extend our field of observation. But, from the limited nature of our inquiry, it seems more prudent to desist from such an elaborate undertaking, and humbly to hope that this present vindication, imperfect as it is, may yet be found useful in some respects. That part especially, which relates to our amended translation of the original text, is designed merely to elicit some of those remarkable internal evidences of Revelation respecting the great antiquity of our solar system. Nor is this species of knowledge to be estimated beyond its real value, which chiefly consists in overthrowing the unfounded and anti-scriptural aspersions of infidelity, in reference to the past duration of the planetary world. THE END. LONDON: IBOTSON AND PALMER, PRINTERS, SAVOY STREET, STRAND. 3 15 11 |