Primitive Origination of Mankind Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature…
Sir Matthew Hale (1609-1676)
London: Printed for William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery at the Sign of the Bible in Duke-Lane, 1677
First edition

Published after Sir Hale’s death, this curious treatise attempts to prove that the world must have had a beginning else mankind could never have existed from eternity.