The Sacred theory of the earth : containing an account of the original of the earth and of all the general changes which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo, till the consumation of all things . T H E 6 R Y OF THE EARTH. Book IV. Concerning the new Heavens and new Earth, AND Concerning the Confummation of all things. <g)S) ®S^ (g® i^ ®S) ®3^ ®®) ®3J ®S^ ig®^ ^ Chap. liitroduBton; That the World will not learmlhilated i?i the laft Fire. That we are t/fex^eti^ according to Scripture and the Chri^ftian DoBrine^ New Heavens and a NewEarthj when thefe are dijjblv\i or hirnt ii^. E
The Sacred theory of the earth : containing an account of the original of the earth and of all the general changes which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo, till the consumation of all things . T H E 6 R Y OF THE EARTH. Book IV. Concerning the new Heavens and new Earth, AND Concerning the Confummation of all things. <g)S) ®S^ (g® i^ ®S) ®3^ ®®) ®3J ®S^ ig®^ ^ Chap. liitroduBton; That the World will not learmlhilated i?i the laft Fire. That we are t/fex^eti^ according to Scripture and the Chri^ftian DoBrine^ New Heavens and a NewEarthj when thefe are dijjblv\i or hirnt ii^. E are naw fo far advanced in theT heory of the Earth, as to havefeen the End of Two Worlds:One deftroyd by Water, and an-other by Fire. It remains only toGOnfider, whether we be yet come to the final Period^. 186 The Theory of the E a r t h. Period of Nature : The laft Scene of all things,and confequently the utmoft Bound of our En-quiries : Or, whether Providence, which isinexhaufted in Wifdomand Goodnefs, will raifeup, from this dead Mafs, New Heavens anda New Earth. Another habitable World,better and more perfe£t than that whichwas deftroyed. That, as the firft World be-gan with a Paradife, and a ftate of Innocency,fo the laft may be a kind of Renovation of thathappy State ; whcfe Inhabitants fliall not die,but be tranflated to a bleffed Immortality. I know tis the Opinion of fome, that thisWorld will be annihilated, or reducM to no-thing, at the Conflagration : and that wouldput an end to all further Enquiries. Butwhence do they learn this ? from Scripture orReafon, or their own Imagination? WhatInftance or Example can they give us of thisthey call oAnnlhilation ? Or what place of Scri-pture can they produce, that fays, the World,in the laft Fire, ftall be reducM to nothing ?If they h
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