IN the former Edition of this Treatise this Discourse concerning the Primitive Chaos and Creation of the World, and that other concerning the Destruction thereof by the Waters of the General Deluge, in the days of Noah, were brought in by way of Digression; because I designed not at first to treat of them, but only of the Conflagration or Dissolution of the World by Fire; but was afterwards, when I had made a considerable progress in the Dissolution, at the instance of some Friends, because of their Relation to my Subject, prevailed upon to say something of them. But now that I am at liberty so to do, I shall not handle them any more by the by, but make them substantial Parts of my Book, and dispose them, as is most natural, accordding to their priority and posteriority in order of time, beginning with the Chaos and Creation.
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