. 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 .. . t their Way in the Sea, and wereready to run one againft another, as Theo-fhanes reports. But the late accurate Dif-covery of the Spots of the Sun by Scheiner^and the Appearing and EHfappearing ofFixtStars and Comets, and the Exeuriions of thefeJaft, do argue it more than poflible, that afterfonie vaft Periods of Time, the Sun may befo inextricably inveloped by the MamU^ thathe ma
. 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 .. . t their Way in the Sea, and wereready to run one againft another, as Theo-fhanes reports. But the late accurate Dif-covery of the Spots of the Sun by Scheiner^and the Appearing and EHfappearing ofFixtStars and Comets, and the Exeuriions of thefeJaft, do argue it more than poflible, that afterfonie vaft Periods of Time, the Sun may befo inextricably inveloped by the MamU^ thathe may quite lofe his Light; and then youmay eafily guefs what would become of theInhabitants of the Earth : For without hisvivifick Heat, neither could the Earth putforth any Vegetables for their Suftenance;neither if it could, would they be able to bearthe Extremity of the Cold, which muft needsbe more rigorous, and that perpetually, thanit is now under the Poles in Winter-time,But this Accident, tho it would indeed cxtiurguifli all Life, yet being quite contrary to aDiffolution by Fire, ot which the Apoftlcfpeaks, I fhall pafs it over without farthcfjConfideratipn, and proceed to ^ Third, ;iii of the World. 575. Sect. III. The Third pofible Caiife of the WorldiDeftrudion^ the Kmftion of the CentralFire, H E PofTibility oF the Erup-.^tion of the Central Fire, ifany fuch there be, inclofed iathe Earth. It is the Hypother*fis of Monlieur des Cartef^ that the Earth wasoriginally a Star, or Globe of Fire, likethe Sun, or one of the Fixt Stars, (ituate inthe Center of a Vortex continually whirlinground with it. That by Degrees it was co-vered QW^x^ or incruftatcd with MacuU^arifing on its Surface like the Scum on a boil-ing Pojt, which ftill increafing and growingthicker and thicker, the Star lofing its Lightand Activity, and, confequently, tlie Motionof the celeftial Vortex about it growing moreweak, languid, and unable to refift the vi-gorous Incroachments of the neighbouringVortex o
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