Philofophical Meditations, WITH DIVINE INFERENCES: Containing a VIEW of 1. The Primitive Purity of the Creation. 2. The Change that enfued upon Man's Difobedience. 3. The further Changes that fucceeded the Deluge, and 4. Lamech's Prophecy concerning his Son Noah confidered; with a new Definition of the prefent Phænomena of our Atmosphere 5. in the Nature of Lightning in a clear Sky, Fire-Balls, Fire - Drakes, ShootingStars, and Lights in the North, with Tempefts of Thunder and Lightning. The laft and final Change to be expected, after which all Subjection to future Change will be wholly remov'd. The State of the Bleffed in a New Heaven, and a New Earth. The whole being interspersed with Divine Inferences and many useful Curiofities never before taken notice of by any other Author. The Preface containing, befides other things, the Aathor's Opinion of the Millennium; as not being a Temporal Reign of Chrift, &c. With a Postscript of the Nature of Water-Spouts, By BENJAMIN PARKER, AUTHOR of the laft Philofophical Meditations, and Longitude at Sea. LONDON: Printed for the Author at Mary-Bridge, Derby; and may be had at Mr. J. Wilford's at the Three Flower-de-luces behind the Chapter-Houfe, near St. Paul's; at the Cross-Keys Inn in WoodAtreet, London; at Mr. Dicey's Printer in Northampton; at Mr. Simon Martin's Bookfeller in Leicester, and at his Shops in Loughborough and Hinckley; where may now be had alfo his First Volume of Philofophical Meditations, and his Longitude as Sea. MDCCXXXV, [Price One Shilling.] 3 TO HER MOST Sacred and Excellent MAJESTY Queen CAROLINE May it pleafe Your Majesty, AVING found that my former Volume of Philofophical Meditations has met with a more general Acceptance amongst Your Sacred Majesty's Subjects by the Honour I received from the Patronage of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire; I A 2 humbly humbly offer my Second Volume to Your Moft Excellent Majefty's Approbation; affuring myself, that Your Majefty's gracious Acceptance of it will give it that Force and Influence which thro' the Meannefs of my Circumftances it muft neceffarily have been deprived of; becaufe in the general Efteem of the World, the Author's outward Condition commonly adds to, or diminishes from, the Value of his Works; which Inconvenience of an Author's Meanness can only be remov'd by the Patronage of fuch upon whom depends the Expectation of the Nation's Tranquillity, and who have a Goodness equal to their Greatness, and look upon Truth and Reason impartially from whomfoever they come: Which being most confpicuous in Your Majefty's Royal Perfon, by whom, under God, in Concert with His Moft Excellent Ma jefty King George the Second, we of thefe Kingdoms enjoy the greatest Bleffings of any Nation upon Earth, (I speak |