. Three physico-theological discourses : concerning: I. The primitive chaos and creation of the world ; II. The general deluge, its causes and effects ; III. The dissolution of the world and future conflagration .. . pinion, anddo rather think that tfie Gonflagration ihallbe effeded by a fuperficial Fire. Tho I muftconfefsvve read in Tacitus^ AnnaL 13. at the C c 3 * End, 3po Of the Dijfolution. End, of a Sort of Fire that was not fo apt to difperfe and vanifli. The City of the Jnhoniafis in Ger?nany (faith he) confe-derate with us wasaffliile^ with a fuddenDifafter; for Fires iffuing out of t
. Three physico-theological discourses : concerning: I. The primitive chaos and creation of the world ; II. The general deluge, its causes and effects ; III. The dissolution of the world and future conflagration .. . pinion, anddo rather think that tfie Gonflagration ihallbe effeded by a fuperficial Fire. Tho I muftconfefsvve read in Tacitus^ AnnaL 13. at the C c 3 * End, 3po Of the Dijfolution. End, of a Sort of Fire that was not fo apt to difperfe and vanifli. The City of the Jnhoniafis in Ger?nany (faith he) confe-derate with us wasaffliile^ with a fuddenDifafter; for Fires iffuing out of the Earth,burned Towns, Fields, Villages everywhere, arid fpread even to the Walls of aColony newly built, and could not be ex-tinguilhed, neither by Rain nor River-Wa-ter, nor any other Liquor that couid beemployed, until for \\^nt of Remedy, ofAnger of fuch a Diftradion, certain Pea-fants caft Stones afar off into it^ then theFlame fomewhat flackning, drawing near,they put it out with Blows of C^lubs, andother like, as if it had been a wild Beaft :Laft of all, they threw in Cloaths fromtheir Backs, which the more worn andfouler they were, the better they quenched « the Fire I ufe Dr. Hahwitls Tranfla- C W A P, C H A P. VII. The Third Queftion anfwered^ WhetherJhdll this Dijfolutwn be gradual andfaccejjive^ or momentamous andfiidden ? 3.^^^^HEThirdQLieftion is, TThetherM tM fi(ill this Diffolution he gradual^^^^ ^«i fucceffive^ or mojnentaneous and fudden ?I ANSWER, The Scripture refolves for thelatter, The Day of theLoKDjJjall come as aThief in the Night: A Similitude we haveoften repeated in Scripture, as in the tenthVerfe of this Chapter, in i Thejf, xv. iii. 3. and xvi. 15. And the Refur-redion and Change of Things, it is faid,Ihall be in a Motnent^ in the Twinkling of anEye^ I Cor. xv. 52. Confonant whereto boththe Epicureans and Stoich held their DifToIu-tions of the World Ihould be fudden andbrief, as Lucretius and Seneca, in the Placeforementioned, tell
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