CHAPTER I

 THE Introduction; An account of the whole Work, of the extent and general Order of it.

CHAPTER II

  A general account of Noah's Flood. A computation what quantity of Water would be necessary for the making of it; That the common Opinion and Explication of that Flood is not intelligible. 

CHAPTER III

  All Evasions concerning the Flood answered)- That there was no new Creation of Waters at the Deluge)- and that it was not particular or National) but extended throughout the whole Earth- A prelude and preparation to the true account and explication of it- The method of the first Book.

CHAPTER IV

  That the Earth and Mankind had an Original, and were not from Eternity; Prov'd against Aristotle. The first proposition of our Theory laid down, viz. That the Ante-diluvian Earth was of a different Form and Construction from the present. This is prov'd from Divine Authority, and from the Nature and Form of the Chaos, out of which the Earth was made.

CHAPTER V

  The Second Proposition is laid down, viz. That the face of the Earth before the Deluge was smooth, regular and uniform; without Mountains, and without a Sea. The Chaos out of which the World rise is fully examin'd, and all its motions observ'd, and by what steps it wrought it self into an habitable World. Some things in Antiquity relating to the first state of the Earth are interpreted, and some things in the Sacred Writings. The Divine Art and Geometry in the construction of the first Earth is observ'd and celebrated.  

CHAPTER VI

  The Dissolution of the First Earth: The Deluge ensuing thereupon. And the form of the present Earth rising from the Ruines of the First.  
 

CHAPTER VII

  That the Explication we have given of an Universal Deluge is not an IDEA only, but an account of what really came to pass in the Earth, and the true explication of Noah's Flood. An examination of Tehom-Rabba, or the Great Abysse, and that by it the Sea cannot be understood, nor the Subterraneous Waters as they are at present,. What the true Notion and Form of it was, collected from Moses and other Sacred Writers. Observations on Deucalion's Deluge.

CHAPTER VIII

  The particular History of Noah's Flood is explain'd in all the material parts and circumstances of it, according to the preceding Theory. Any seeming difficulties remov'd, and the whole Section concluded with a Discourse how far the Deluge may be lookt upon as the effect of an Ordinary Providence, and how far of an Extraordinary.

CHAPTER IX

  The Second Part of this Discourse, proving the same Theory from the Effects and the present Form of the Earth, First, by a general Scheme of what is most remarkable in this Globe, and then by a more particular induction; beginning with an account of Subterraneous Cavities and Subterraneous Waters.

CHAPTER X

  Concerning the Chanel of the Sea, and the Original of it," The causes of its irregular form and unequal depths: As also of the Original of Islands, their situation, and other properties .

CHAPTER XI

  Concerning the Mountains of the Earth, their greatness and irregular Form, their Situation, Causes and Origin.

CHAPTER XII

  A short review of what hath been already treated of, and in what manner. All methods, whether Philosophical or Theological, that have been offer'd by others for the explication of the Form of the Earth, are examin'd and refuted. A conjecture concerning the other Planets, their Natural Form and State compar'd with ours,. Especially concerning Jupiter and Saturn.