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A miscellaneous metaphysical essay; or, An hypothesis concerning the formation and generation of spiritual and material beings To which is added, some thoughts upon creation in general, upon (14589979517)

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Title: A miscellaneous metaphysical essay; or, An hypothesis concerning the formation and generation of spiritual and material beings .... To which is added, some thoughts upon creation in general, upon pre-existence, the cabalistic account of the Mosaic creation, the formation of Adam, and fall of mankind; and upon the nature of Noah's deluge. As also upon the dormant state of the soul, from the creation to our birth, and from our death to the resurrection ...

Year: 1748 (1740s)

Authors: Casway, R Ralph, James, d.1762

Subjects: Philosophy and religion Creation Soul

Publisher: London, A. Millar

Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library

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Learning before j for, if Cadmus was thefirft who brought Letters into Greece^ we cantfuppofe the Aborigines of Greece were theDefcendents of Noah ; otherwife they mighthave had the fame Letters and Learning upontheir firft Settlement, Learning being cultivatedand improved by his Family ; for we cant butfuppofe Noah to have excelled in Learning, inall Arts and Sciences, from his antediluvianKnowlege, and great Age. Thus the Account7 of Meiaphyfical Eflay. 255 of Bacchin and Ceres^ being the firft whotaught the feveral Nations the Ufe of Wine,Bread-corn, and Bread, arifes from the De-fcendents of Noah inftruiSing the Aboriginesin ufeful Arts. It would be endlefs to followthis as I might. In fhort, there will be noDifficulty in allowing of the Antiquity of theEgyptian^ Chinefe^ and other oriental Hiftories,and*to mod of the Difficulties we find at pre-fent in the early Account of the Original of Na-tions, upon allowing of Preadamites, and dif-allowing of the Univerfality of the Deluge,

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