Thomas Burnet's Battleground of Time - Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time - page 39

forming the earth as it now is, immediately from the Chaos or without a
dissolution [as the flood had produced in Burnet's scheme]; and the necessity
of adhering to Moses' Hexameron as a physical description [Burnet actually
wrote "Moses his Hexameron" in that delightful construction used before
English codified the current form of the genitive]; to show the contrary to
these two hath swelled my letter too much, (in Turnbull, 1960, 327)
Figure 2.8
The earth made perfect a second time, after the descent of particles by
density into concentric layers following the future conflagration. (From first
edition.)