thereof: the world, and they that dwell therein. Psalm 50. 12. For the world is mine, and the fulness Rev. thereof. 77. 18. The lightnings lightened the world; the earth trembled and shook. 68. 32. Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth. 11. 15. The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of the Lord, and of his Christ. Psalm 96. 13. For he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteous ness, and the world with his truth. Prov. 3. 19. The Lord by wisdom hath founded the Jere. earth. 10. 12. He hath made the earth by his power; he hath established the world by his wisdom. Isaiah, 24. 4. The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away; the haughty people of the earth do languish. 26. 9. For when thy judgements are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. Isaiah, 26. 18. We have not wrought any deliverance in the earth, neither have the inha Jere. bitants of the world fallen. 25. 29. I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth. Nahum, 1. 5. The earth is burned at his presence; yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. Mat. Zech. 12. 1. And layeth the foundation of the earth. 13. 35. I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world. John, 5. 13. Ye are the salt of the earth. 14. Ye are the light of the world. 3. 31. He that is of the earth, is earthy, and speaks of the earth. 1 John, 4. 5. They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world; and the world heareth them. 1 Cor. 3. 19. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. James, 3. 15. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. Rev. 3. 10. I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all Rev. 12. 9. the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. Satan, which deceiveth the whole world. 13. 14. And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth. From the similarity which appears to me in those verses between the world and the earth, I take for probable that in the Scripture those two words have the same signification, or differ very little one from the other. Now here are many verses, in which the earth, the dry land which is a part of it, and the world, are mentioned; which verses I believe cannot be applied to this globe; for they seem to me rather unintelligible, if understood literally. As I may be wrong, I beg you will carefully meditate on every one of them, and discuss whether my opinion that they ought not to be taken in the usual sense, is correct or not; neither suffering yourself to be influenced by what I think, nor absolutely commanded by the sentiments of others. Gen. 1. 24. And God said, let the earth bring forth the living creature, after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind and it was so. 3. 17. Cursed is the ground for thy sake. Gen. Exo. Lev. 4. 14. Thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth. 6. 11. The earth also was corrupt before God; and the earth was filled with violence. 8. 21. And the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake. 9. 1. Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth. 13. And it shall be for a token of a cove nant between me and the earth. 11. 1. And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 27. 39. Thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth. 41. 30. And the famine shall consume the land. 3. 8. Unto a land flowing with milk and honey. 15. 12. Thou strechedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them. 18. 25. And the land is defiled; therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants. 26. 19. I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass. 38. And the land of your enemies shall eat you up. 42. I will remember the land. Numb. 13. 27. We came into the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it flows with milk and honey. Numb. 14. 21. And the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord. 16. 30. But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth and swallow them up, and they go down quick into the pit, then ye shall understand. 35. 33. Blood defileth the land, and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. 34. Defile not the land which ye shall in- Lord, dwell among the children of Deut. 11. 12. A land which the Lord thy God careth for: the eyes of the Lord are always upon it. 28. 23. And the earth under thee shall be iron. 29. 27. The anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses. 32. 1. Hear, O earth! the words of my mouth. 13. He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields. 22. A fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her in |