i fewer number.
table Learning, and particularly, ,SC.1§ufll'lI, Pbilo 72:.» .
dcem, Pracopuix, Cajatai-2,. and many of the’Rahbins,‘

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Two Remeatltableo

             

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an Enfiant, and not in fix days,

  II, That the World at the lalfl day '  a

{hall not entirely be cotzfumid
byFlR E.‘ A

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cle of Faith. I confefs the molt common,and1nofi fol-

lowed Opinion is,That .Wl21iCl1i‘iS:‘b_€lCiV,d to be mofi
' conformable to the Litteralsence of theB.Oo’l< of Gene?-

”. And I do grant wit.hal,that thofe Authors who wilt
not admit of the Litteral Sence ‘of the Words, are the
However they were men of Admi«-

who belt undetlioocl, and :allegotiz’d the Bible by
means of their Miftetious Kabbalzz, and the Traditions
oftheit Anceliors. i 4 n

  \NtithSubmiHion therefore I {hall hear fef down
the following Ptealons, which feem. to make it out 5

That the Creation of the World was done in an in-.»‘  

Rant. -

Firfi, It is an abfurdicy to fay, That God created; h

the World with difiinflion of time, for two Reafons :
For then the A&-itfelf could not be properly (aid,
Create, to Create, but Face,-re, to,Make. In regard

V ~ A   i t that

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I.) That the World was C‘te'ated.in

 H E fitfi of thefe two has been aQueliion  
muchdilputed among Theblogifis, and ye:
. _itcmainsttundeterm1n’d gfor It IS n’ot.:anyAtti+  

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that Creaaizmn is not only to raiie a tlr-ing out of no-»

thing, hut to m:alt_e‘ir alfoiwithout Time. Wlticlt i$l/
‘an infinite lOmninotency only to be attributed t0

God, who aéterh all things in an inllrant,and cannot bi‘
hounded hy Time. S . S i 2 S  -
Secondly, It’ would be an ahfittdity to aflerr that
Time {hould be before Time it  For Tiirre which
is the meafure only oiMotion,heg2;an but with thel\/Io-
tion ofthe Celeltial Bodies, the Sun, Moon, and

Stars, Novvaccorcling to the.Littetal Sence in Ge:2e- V
/Er, the Firmazrzent which God called Heat/en, was

Created the fecond day, but the Sun and Stars were

not Created till the fourth day. How then could

there be Days and Nights, whicharre nothing but
Tithe, before Time it felf? ‘ ‘ " S   *   , S

4 To this purpolelet us hear Pbilo :7udcc'm'.upon this
Point. Firfi, faith -‘he, ‘tie; a Simplicity toogrofs and
xufiick to believe the World was Created in fix Days

or in "certain Time; becaufe that Time is no other‘

then a Viflitude and Continuation of Days and
Nights, canted by the Motion of the Sun keeping his

annual Courfe abo'ut‘the Earth. Secondly, Ohlerve  

the very Text it (elf, which tells us.firft,' in the Begin.
izzg, Bercflait/J, God Created the Heaven and the Earth ;
and yet after that it fays again,That\ the Heavens were
not ’Created till the fecond Da_y,nor the Earth till the
third.   In the fame Text it is wrirten,i that the
Light Was Created the firfi day, but that the Sun,
the Moon, and the Starts were not Created till the
fourth day. And yet it isnot rational to believe,that

either the Day-orthe Light could be Without the Sun ._

and the Stats.‘ For that Day is no other then the
Prefenceiofthe Sun. » V    S I t‘ I t l

 To which Ilhall add thus much more, that there
feetns to be a {irange incoherence inthe two SVC-flies
concerning ,theCteation ofLight 5 in the Creating of
       Which,

‘ not begin hisV\/oraktwithout aLight_; t_S;o.;t/hen

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which‘ there feems ‘ to ‘L h

aiti.e'j'bin ‘W0 ‘days: 

Whicht is an indt€.C0mm. to {H118 £in¢.; i'1?*%é3<8f§eri Qmw§t~
potency. it (elf) had? C0fl1fI13¥lC3;€ds. ..L¢t.JI??’?.v5£_ L1'g~.]?f,,,-,   A
thatthatCommand;l1ad net, b¢§¥1»fi:f53°3§fl§i {PP th¢.Q:¥‘%%r.:‘
tionof: whatever-epertainediigtp Light,; ’ 

a infinuate a kind%$ofAgez1,i§Emfire;tQ  t}§4§»afa.u;€  '

_Biut'?:tQ» this, irherc aretfqme W'hr9rD1?9€§}f,:T.«bat 
Eight Created thteifirfi d aygfi 'vy_1as*:g >cI,eaij. and bright

“lining Cloud‘. Wick ‘Var: d3fTiPat€di;Whé.n.i th,¢i5*'{1!?;a

was Created.Nt')thih:g moreiera tibnal~tid,b~e1{eiye; if

Omnipotency had bin in that‘; 

‘ ,b.éfi&qi

 . . _,- 1.   at
that theScriptt;re makes no 
work without teritgs , {#5395 "WC-:t“3.T¢. v‘b0U§id..»_;
tobelizeve, forwhaf; flmuid this Cloud;b§egg§t§itidf?§3 9
for the Creator nloft atffuredlay 5 not 7   
ful to‘. the Ctea turesx whoiwege;  I:;’.C.;3'EC(;3’;é‘$\,  

ter d=eClates, t.iI_:I; after: the‘S_ut1,.‘.: SQ~,t;h;%at.th){si,  /

a very ufielefs C!oud;, whi,ch.wo;u_Id nothe 
either to- the Architeét oar; tor the V}[%.o1*I{h1;ain-fifty;
Moreover, fince Godfaw thag_rhe  ‘goodd iris
it is Written, whc'r:€fore dti‘da:he.di1fli.f3a:teitaftegithte
Sun was Created‘ ? V   F qr wemtn it not aitrbw 9i,1ij'x{;:;s
to imagine any Afiion of the Crea,t‘9r.i.-ifoig 
as to call that good whi_jt:h;he 
of its being. ‘.5 r ;  i_ - ', ,._.:    V 
So thatwhere Faith detest not  u;sjt9hrbeiei}ge
Otherwifea ’tis the moflerasiepfl CPni'€é7t1f¢iith?%trii?y
the firfi Light was meat); th_egSrm it {el,f,¢togethe_r 

the Moon and" 5Ea,rs,which 

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were allincluded in the Cgm.rngn.d. , _ .  

.' In the ‘next place fl1ould.—v_sa.e a1l9wi.a.fgparation and
dzaanaron of Time 3C¢9T;d.ipg to the‘ cqmmoin gingi-
tation of Days, it would foilpw that th}e’eW,(_)I1§ <>,f.t,[.1tf-‘

Creation was Cafier upon Come dayé, then ixpori Other",

and i

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and men might thenceconclude, that tome Com-

mands o,fGodisOm'ip’otency are moreditfictllt to heac-ta - ~-
complillled by him.ylelfthen,0thers.Forvve may rationale V
lyconyeétuteythat it? Could not take uplo much time to \

command Light, and to diftinguilh it from Darknels,
as‘t'o,expand ’ the two Firm-amentsi of A Watetsiand

conlolidate them in their proper" Firmaments. 'Nei-e
thergcan itbe ‘(thought Folidifiicult a Task to create the by

Earth, as¥t<_$;e»em‘héllei{l1"the Heavens with lo many
fSphears;yande‘l’o 'many'Orbs’-oflndividual Stars.   And
 byiilniaking Omnipotency fubjeét to {itch Acci;
drein,ts as thelie,i we givelan inlet to thole conlequences
which a-relenioti to be t.h’oug'ht of in -‘Theologi . r

 A fift Realon may be taken from the Text it (elf,
which pufitively lays, That in the Beginning, that is

1

“at ‘the ,.b.eginni\ng of the Work, God Created the He4- t

wear and the Eczrtbgthat is to l'ay,bey giving form to the
Rude Mats, and creating the Light 5 and yet in the
third Verfe it tells us of the Creation of the Light be-

fore either. Whence it follows that he beflowed two

fdays,

e or at leali: the part of tWo'D/ays in Creating the
Earth, as well as the Light. ' e

i The {ixt Argument is deduced from the Contrarie-  

ty of the Litteral Delisription, which allows no lelis
then four Days for the Creation of the Light,the[-1ea-
vens, the Earth, and the Celefiial Luminaries, and yet
in the next Chapter we find thefe Words. Tbefe are
the Generation: of the Heaven, and the ‘Eartb,wben they
were created, Bijom, in the Day that the Lord God
made‘ the Earth and the Heavens, M So that what
was before difiinguilhed intothe \/Vork of four days,
is here laid to be done in due and the fame day. s
  Another Argument may be gathered from hence,
That in regard‘ the World {hall have an End in a Mo-.
mm, and in the Twinkling of mi yliye, fofudden (hall
  a i e

be out Change from the Sleep of Death to Immorta~   .

lity, there is the fame likelyhood and the fame pro-
bability that it was created in a Moment. ‘Sinceit’s

Creation, and its End depend both upon-the fame-

Caule, which is  who llill aéls without Circum-
fiance ofdiftinfiion of Time.   ~ g

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‘ Again we   may ’ rationally conclude, that the Al- V

mighty, intending no lefs in the Creation, then to‘

give us an undeniable Evidence of his moli incompre-

he-nfihle Omnipoteney, itis not likelythat he would

delay to make that in fix days, which he could do in

an Inliant. ~ The Efl?'e€’ts of the Divinity being to [Is

more Miraculous and Glorious in one Degreethen in,

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another.

Neither isthis ()pinl\0fl1 altogether i“m’aginalry,,,a but e
in fome meafure grounded upon powerful Scripture, i

even upon the Words of God Himfelf, difputing out
of the Whirle-Wind with 705 in the 38 Chapter of
that Book, ver{e'4. Where wart thou, faith he, when I

laid the Fouudationr of the Earth .9 Verllel  e W hen they '

Star: ofthe Morning fang together, and the Son: of God

[haunted forjoyl .9, For what may we hence conjeélure,  

but the Angels, Cache BoQ*r,.Stars of the-Morning,a,nd

Bette Elohim, the Sons of God, beholding twofuch '

miraculous Piles, together with their own as wonder-

ful forms commanded at fuch an Infiant into a glori-

ous being, gave Shouts of Prailleeand Acclamations of
joy, in admiration of the Great Creators Om nipoten.

Cy. And indeed we there findthe Voice of God de- l

‘littering the Story of his Incomprehenfiblel Wonders
with fuch a lofty Brevity,that we may well believe he

performed thofeWonders with the fameswiftnels that ,
, he (pike them. ‘

9

NOW that Man was Created at the fame inllant with l

the relli, feems toibe hinted by the Prophet iE‘Zo,ech«,_z'el,
lpe ak-

(‘ti’)

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.fpeak§ntgr to the a{{ifig -' Loft Tym 5‘-‘.9 -t ‘-'I%i0n=,JaH?! been m E-

den, faith he‘, dizzy the Giaradetz o;‘f'Gocl": and rprellently af-

ter. ‘T/.i'e Worknzgzn/hip ’(:ft“by¢-‘D*ru’m1w andiilay F[“t¢~" i
may prepareditn‘z-béegzzztlae Day t-‘bat thoulwaflméreated.   V
Wheoee we m»a.y—inFer.r, I éthat Man, ‘and the Creatures

which were made for his Saltej were all—ereated*in~the
fame Day, If thenin thefame Day, much*mp01TCifl
ct§tnpl,.jzancei with o:t1t~Conje<9turfe; then ‘With the Lit-
ter‘?a’li_,d“efi;r%iption'ol the‘fiirli Ctlaapterbffiene /2-r.,i

- But how then*eotnes§«it -to pals, that the‘ firPt»Cha.p - ‘

ter-of Genefinis‘ lb eX'p’refs_a:nd’i'fotcareFLil7iln fet.t:ing

. ,l doW»n£the:dif9ti1.1€.tiont of Days? '      V >
:   The R-.ea‘l'on_‘isthis,~ Faitht I?"nocopintr.,~ that the Author

‘   might accommodate ‘hitm{"el2£e‘i‘to+theetfieeilvleneefs «andt

rudenefs of Humane Underfianding, which is fo inca- t

pable of the Myflery of the Creation, being lo high

and diPri=cu.lt, thatethfi Hebtewstantiently W€ould'noc1

pennittit to‘ be lreadbut 5y‘Aged“ pet:l’o~ns,orfu:ch as were

% ofa very ripe underl’cand'in‘g. And‘fthiis- fame tpreme-r

ditated compliance of the W riter; with thatrneans of’

HumanCiapa_city,ié- evidient by theO'rder he kept,in the

d—efeript'i.on~o-f the Cteationiof ‘theWorl~dL', which is» na-

turally apprehended in the Generation of things:
going Gradatim, and beginningefiitfiwitht a del'-"crip~ti-
on of the matter, .‘'out of which all things were made,
which he callsfobn vziabobu, l Ab} zfiv rem Tz'mzmem.~
After thatihe bringsthis rude Male into form,Createsl
the Light, fixesthe Firmamentsg lhapes and adorns the

Earth with Plants and Fruits, «Creates the Sun, Moon

and Stars” replenilhes the Sea, fils‘ the Earth with 311
forts of living Creatures, and then with a more deli-
berate conlultation Creates Man in his own Image.
And thus hemealures the work of the great Creator
by the Rule of human Apprehenfion. Suicha Pfggféfll

{ion Ofworking falling‘moPt eafily into the (;ot;je&urC 

of Fancy. I
After

Alter atll:this._i, ihete ist.n.;t:thing. motel dllemonfh-ates
Tllfi 1‘ruth=<:ol‘w;hat inafs ’ilbech"i"a%ijd,~ but tltatwhicfh ether;
Text tells us‘, thataft—e;ifi the COflCl!UfiOfl_; Q£‘fb_§s work-,
Gaza’ refled tlaefeezremia Zia}. For;ftotibeI;iev§e 
Kej“£§{3d? oral-lad need;.Of»:K€{§, .iS_ I0 efl1al£Te;.hi1flg;fubje&\§’

  to the EenCo.ntf‘en—ienci€:s of La:btQhtIj%r,e»and; the_;£ldV3-ntaagt A

ges of Re'crt.c'ation3 ’i§w<hich~is:to di%fl1bn:0l1.£lth¢a,@mt1i§s;

potentzgr of tih6'i;Crteatpcseiiniaé1Eila0&°:hlghgNfitur.q;;7;It:;feg-i i

mai ns alien,  that '.£E‘h.§;.5 wtmonlty il}:>Qlten;? mgré:t§'B?¢rgg4p2;;,
and a.?44'1l€g0?’i€4!Z_75  iiTl‘.isC:9fld eifentidne Io’ ,hhinan a-..u’flfi€1:;£é
{landing  whiich  alfo <..t..<§ bs‘::§u,n detfiaoid the fame:
mannertoflesll  J beforfe; from whence we(m_aj_§f

fairly _conctlati<;le,ta.* thatarthre ‘whale ;wa*sa;n[o: mojge-e::th_m, jg;
conjefiural Moral co5mfp,.-il’d-  ;;-the ‘_La‘§1vg§}yg5r’, fihg;
more deeply to fix inthe mindsgpf h-lSflPClO,P:l.:*C118j," ‘Vig,-nee;

ration of , his intended i.S4.baaz}2,,«; lo D‘i.vm¢1.yt~ln¢z;e{ram

for a fepa rate day €offily ‘vvonfltip; a»nd‘iI*’(1;pglitiq;;lLy,
necefl'ary- for thereparation Off human3N;Z4tl1*re5‘ {pend

with continual toyland etlabojur. Thereis anothen

thing which mainly.-Rumbles «me; 3‘I‘ld.i—thfl'C'.'.1-i8,“'t-11953!

‘ long that dark ‘andiformlelarmattet h1¢d,lbeen_.befo;g,~ *

the Creator fepatatéd it into i.for”fn‘,?a=‘Fto'rif: it _we't:c§
Pmexi/ienit,it might be . Erase):-iPtcht~ ab eterng,   for tany
thing that is made outto theiconttaiy. ‘T0’ fay it was
I’rcee‘xzflem,rbut not ~Pr2exifi[€n*t ab.eterna,- fQfi that Get!»
madeit but a little before hemade the .World,i’s onllyi
to lay that theCreator went to K¥Io’r;l£:f1l0Ii€Il.l_k¢ nail.-At!
chitefi» then a Deity, land chathefcould not:Cnr.eatcth<:i
Univerle with all its fB€auty~, out of ;'?10ib1'"g,, also well

as the Chaos‘ 5 and that he wantedta Primam Matefiam  

before hecould lhape his ,D<‘;:fign. From whe_m;¢wg
muft conclude that,.the ,A.t,,l,th‘9r of G4enefi.u5Irq"te thié
Chapter, rather in condefcemidonw to meag1an;drordinae
ry Capacities ,' who are m0¥.§éappf€h¢flfiY§%tof:a l..Ci"_
furely Gradation ‘in .fthc_.C"'€.at’iQn? 95 the: 0il‘l’£l,r athifll”
of an infiant and ”mi'taculouts.-A&,. ; 1 i -'1 u e 

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Ifay the Author of Geuefir , becaule it is a thing
flifily controverted whether Muferwere the Author
or no, and that among Divines andother Learned
Men-‘ofg§rea’t‘ value. -by fomeof whom‘ he is abfolute-

_  Clen-iediitobe thetfole Author of thofe fine Books 3

a=mon=githe¢-refil, by ,St."‘°]'erome and Mafia: , one of
the .lrn=~o“f’t” t-*le’ar‘ned: Interpreters of the Bible of thefe
]atter*Agfes.‘ 5 Nor is. it.fa;i-do in any part of the Perztatezrcb

  of the ‘Blbele; that God did ever die} ate to Mofer the

Greationofathe,World,» as he did the ten Command-
rnentsgorthat he ever wrote by theSpirit of Prophefie.

Again, it can never be thought that the Rory of
the Creation of Man, could be written otherwife then
as has been laid, whenhweconfider theflelation To of-
ten difcornipol'ed,- and find the fa‘m‘e=t.h-ingsi repeated te-

" veral times, which causid St. 7erame to lay, that fome

of the latter Verfese were only Recapitulations or Re.
hearfals of tbeiformer. -For in the If}. Chap. V.  it is
laid, So God Created »Man« in biroaam Image, ‘Male and
Female Created be them 5 at what time Ewe was not

yet made. For wedo not hear of her being taken out i

of rAd4m’s‘lR'i.bJtill the latter end of the next Chapter,
,whic'htwasiafter Adam was put» into the Gardenof
Edcn.Nay the Command againfi eating the forbidden
Fruit mufi be either given to Em , before {he had a
being or not at all; there being. no fuch Command
given to her in particularthat we find, which feeming
incougruities the mofilearned Rabbins have falved by
means of a certain Figure in the Greek call’d Hyfleron,
Prateron, and by them Mokgdam meubar, [no way re.
pugnant to, Reafon or Sence. so that this being
no Article of our -‘Faith ,4 rather then to run
our {elves into Abfurdities and inconveniencies ,
we had better embracea more probable Opinion,
efpecially being To much more for the honour of Gods

Omnipotency, and the Glory of the whole Creati-» t

on.

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am: me am at we [lg/2%%d4y name; A

be totdl{y co;zfzzm7d with Fire,

% ‘sliveral of the Ancient Philaflpberr, more efpes

hciaIIy~the Pythagorean! and Peripatgtzklq af-
firmed that the V./orid was incorruptible .- and that

% ‘it fee‘m’d to them”, That it was neither ‘jilfi not
-reafonable,‘ that fuchj’ a M.iracu%lous and Glorious
‘Szruélurc [hould be put out of Frame and 'ruin%’d.A

:eonfum'd with F ire,

Since them,‘ fome"of the Holy Fathers andmorc ‘  

modern Philpfophers have been divided into two

contrary Opmionsh. Sonic of them aflerting» that
in time the World {hall be totally ruinh’d, bur1}’d and

‘ 5 "Others.

 

That the VVo.rldWas Created in an In»

fiant, and not in fix days.

‘II.

 

 That the V/Vorld atjthhe lafl day (hall nbt
  intirely be confumed by Fire. j  

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and reridred more peefefi.  ' "

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Others aiiedginythatit [hall be only f5'Urg’dWith
Fire, and by that fierce Refining‘ {hall be renewed

§. .

V  Both rtht€_Qnei‘ and e;h‘c.ici;r:bet‘ [of there Opinions

{mm to hie t‘2r{d¢d txpoti the‘Hb.iyi'SC‘riptur€.' '
The fir Pt derives its iAn-thority from theie follow-
ing Texts; ‘    M W A  _ .

Pfal. 102. 23, 26; T he Hmem are the wbrlgof thy l747Ia'J‘,"the_y [hall perifl},
httt than {halt ‘endztre. Job 14.. I 2. So mar: lie: down and rzfeth not till the
Heegveizsflmzz he tip mere. Math; 2L.’3;a_p3§. 1'-ggeeez/622. and Etzrtltrflatzll petfi ettvay;
hut F‘ ’ wzirdtflmll mt‘ etfs awry. 2P.et. 3. IO; Bftt the day of the Lo7‘d“'flmll

"77 r P, _ . .,
come as ztThtefz'72"the*Nz'(ght, Zfi‘ the ‘which the Heewem fhezllpozfs away with 4

great noife, amp! the Elements {hall melt with fervent Heat‘, The Earth tzljb, i ‘
A arm’ the tvorlgr thJ.4zt'_fl7'té'. ‘therein flgezll be burnt up. A

 To .:tiisp"hrpo§!%e aiioihffineee _iaith;" That neither the
 arth riot  flea VE3I')_.Sg,'i:'I:'_'§Ol‘;r.IhQ:’Ffg;m‘§p 3‘nd{»Cqnne5t_ig_n
of things (thoughfuppottediand upheld by the Divi.

nityp) fliaii ailways keep this Order, but that onedayp

theyflwalidiiéontinuetheir Couyfe. p - p , _
And ptothe f;§mevipu,_r‘p,o:{ei'is_;htat of0e,!id,   
---**"" ”‘ n ti .Befidéf5)'-Dobmei   ‘ 

  Ofcertain Fare, he knew ,/Je Time fhould came, ~

When I324’:/’tz, Se¢t,Eart/9, and all the curiau: Frame,  

Ofthi: world: Mafr fhould /brink in purging Flame,

Norare thefe Authoritiesaforementioned without S

Tome Re-afons,for at Ieafi. (ome appearances of Rcafon
to maintain and fecondith-em;  pi
Firfi, That the Heavens and theEIements were
Created to be aflifiing to the.Generation and Corrup-
tion ofmix'd Bodies, which are in the World for the
fervice of mankind: butthat after the day of Judgment,
there {hall be neither Generation nor corruption: nei-
ther fhali there be any more mix: Bodier,excep;.human
Bodies, to be glorified or condemtfd to‘Eternity.
The fecond Rea {on is this, that if the World lhoulid

‘remain after the great Judg-ment,there would be~Time,

and Time depends upon the Courfe and Motion of thfi
‘W orid... But Time /hall be no mere,Rev. ro.6.T~hcrefore
thcWorld {hall continue no longer then Time doth.

i ' The

The ;la*Pt Pxeafont is   takeniefraom <hehCe, ~Tfa4t at

     ojtld /9215‘! (1 Begiflningh, t fl) it   flaalf lIzl‘ve mz 
  The,\World therefore havinghad aAtBegi1mit}g,te111uf}; .

taIfo‘haVear1tE1,1d.’   A _  t  1    _t  1   
 ,.This*ié that whichtheyalledgfe, Whotare forthe

totagl Confumption Of the Worldh gt againijt whomi, he L

they who maintain the conttalfy O.pini'Qn,  believe
_the1nfel‘Ve§ no lefs fi1pportedT~hyi the fo1l0wingArgu=
merits and Authorities; A ' h t  e‘     ‘- J
- ma thm»  give  genemxmarwertto :56
whole Matterf inclufively, thereihs this tobe 0bfl:r—

. .--I

_Ved~; That when the Scrfliptgreh _¢teHsh‘ft%1hs,hmth{aJt’ the

,,World fljallgaerifla an(cieej2;zfi*“zzwzz},."it.;311g,hht T0 H315’

derftood of the Fjgutje and Accidents7~t the
‘AX/Vorld, and nottof t:ht§_St1bfi'a;r1C€, as is lite_raiHy:e§<-ii‘
Plailfd by SE‘ W12’ iC0t+'7-1 3?2~ ;W§h¢r€= he fayés.
5179/” 1519‘? FW0” Of: ””’3;eeVV0”¢1 P4/W’ away 5 *"°°es<’v€%=
 ma, h,‘ that _ his, the Form andtFigt1re ofjthg

wW0r1d-  Ahdh'  this  1¥%§i?fPr¢tation j0ught to be
.bbf%rV’d in f€f€r¢?1?¢ to (the:   ‘af01‘¢-'Hi¢11tioI1’i1»: ~pIaces
hf the Pfzzlmfi, 13:05,‘ St. %Mdtthew,a "and .Sait1ta;Peter.
And thereferfie, the  .a‘fter_he_ha%dat 
the VV0r1d rlaouwerzflo, pretentlytadds, by way

of Explanatiohhg hand, has .1t.were, "d'emonftratively,  

‘that is to fay, T/aghflaczll mzx}; OH-. 45 4 G;zrme};l:t,%% and

at a  Veflure than 11241:   change .:am.- a  St. ‘Paar alfo,

When he: had faith that the ;,He2z‘z/é%mjh_qz2l.d  dimly,
"and the Em/9 floohulclhlye buint up, 1 yet, fai.th;he,.JWe ex:

,pe8c a new Heaven and a fl6W.,Edrt,lf,' that _is, that

th€‘Fi'gure at'1(1FOrm of the  Firffl: fhouldh be -refin’d

and purifi’d to receive thofc: refin’el and puri'fi’d Bo’:
 . hdi€Sg

  Ia} 

tlies that were to poflels them. 

  he an Abfurdity to believe, that God ihould create‘

' new H€d‘U€flf' and at new Etzrt/9, to receive old Crea-

tures: there being nothing farther requifite, but that

 rherwiec, it vmura  

as the Creatures were refinid, to their Habitations
, lhould be purifi’d—.   a

By the way,‘ St. Peter fayes, that the Element:
flazzll melt wit/9 fervent; Heat, Certainly he /muft in-
tend only the Elements ofEtzrtb, I/Vtzter‘ and zflir.

  Now what Element is that which ‘ {hall _ melt the a
? Fire? which   being .- an  Element*toe  Morta-+ 1
lity owes as many of its t prevailing and obfiinate  

Sins, and mifcarriages of Pallion, as any other, has
as much‘ need of being, melteclsast any other? A»
man might “ rarfe from hence many more tQl._1€PEi-4

ons upon the whole Vera». ,1 {hall only put two

Qgeltions , which I think may be done without any  

oflence, Firfi, Whether. in thisoparticular Verle it
may not be thought a iliincl oft Piaradoxsit felt, that

 and tzter e lhouldhe melted . by Fire .9, Se»-
condly, VVliether7is'iteiii‘l5e a thing neceflary to In-4  

Tpiration to be: To nice. in the choice of VVords,

and, as it were, weare sexigm'r%'? However it be, .

certainly a fairer Argument cotild not be made
for our»Afl‘ertion inregard that Liquefzzétiozz or Mek-
ing iiS*nO Annihilation, bL1t"0'I1€lyi\]a Diffolution) and
change of A the Form and Figure of the Subftance,

«liable to fuch an Alteration.

Now, as to” that of the Evangelift, where it is
written, that the Heaven: and Ezzrt/9 fball pzgflr away,
{mt my Words» flmll not ptzf: away 5. it is no moré,
. was t e    thant

aaan ;r }1aa tram,  the    J

iEdrt/9‘ {hall be éhan.g’d',  a  iway {hallV¢<::»'1j-

mac Certain and unaltetabkia  é‘lE?,a as tjtljeré

‘expound [this place, itpught ltd ii'I 1de’rfl'obd by
Vvay bf 1Agg'raVati‘oh,% and to imprint  tgreater Af-

  

furance (if the Veri:’ty 0f the

\EaS‘\>if he had faid, Rathet the Hawany and the Em/9
.;ihallpzgfJfcizmjIthan  words. a *    ‘

. i

at ‘am or God,  

To défcfend from hence  ;[5a f‘tiCt1lat§,: and  a

‘give an Anfwer to the ab0V€—reéitedArgt1fiients.

As to tlic-5% firfi, I ray, that the ‘ééafiné if the Gefie-L

‘ration of mix"a.' Bodz"‘e.r is no‘reaf0nt..wh:y the Worlda

mould  be  ‘1*1Pr05fab‘1§ 356%?‘ *1?¢aaDaYa    JL1dg*f
meat, in ‘regard that tht: New V/Vaorld is”r1é>t: made

for Generdtioiz a but for ‘Récepzio;z:>:ttt Fat .it its the Con";

mption of mix’d‘a Bddies  that teIfidet's%t it mate a _un-?}

equally ~uft:ful7: ythan the Generatiarfiof  B;,z1;.g-3~ g
A For’0’ur own   knowledge ‘fhews us; that w‘ere men

now Immortaa1,"3 therciaa Wou1da3.:-Be :11 11‘ticf:dt Gérzérzzé

- tion 5 fince We find byEa’7>tHat~ai£Fiére {till
  are enow alive at A one time; and;  t.Gferi‘érati»
“on fufficeast to‘ ‘People théi   ifome-3
times than the Norther}: ?aParfts %  the? \/KZé');a.rl(;1“'<:atT1; I
bear. And for choré ianurfietibié fiu‘1f1bef§ it;£%aSait1t§ %

already departed, » ?«ryé.t‘: to apafivtafieir t1é:1ga,aage;
in this World, who: ttaaws whit‘iR‘é¢epéaci&§ amay
be requifite,”ia1§;dhdW»ifai’gt‘I1is  ’*  ufe-1
ful when refin’d:f a % :;i  
us, that the nezv’f7’erifizléfi2*~TI”E-all  a;€1<3rrfd?;i7_it,lh> $15}: 
rifi’d-aMa_terialsaa of this very    
ragc1)':,7Emr4ldi,' and t the *"1ike;: 3_b€idg. «parfsi   fithis‘

    A

 % :1 onely; not deflrojrd.  r

‘Wofld‘, rdemofifirate, that V the VVo’r1d’ is-to hepari-

As to the fecond Arghurnihent, That Tz'me{ would
‘continue, {hould the Worldi remain‘, that Supgofie

tion does not r"o‘llow5 for Z1-,’z.'me is nothcausfd by the '

Being of the %VVorlcl,hbut by the M0zio_a of the
Sun, and the other Celeftial Bo_di__es :30 thatg if it

be proV’d that the Celeflial Bodies flaallvthen Pfallci

Hill and be fiX”d=,’ as beingsthen orda;ien’d for no o~
thereflfe, but to be the Receptacles to receive the
all-enlightning Glory  that is hereafter to illuminate
the neweréfinedr-r%Stru€’tures  of Heaven  and Earth,

-Timen1u{t of necelfity ceafe, becaufl:~:~ the Motion  

which it; meafurest-.Ceafes.:;  =AndetthiS:{€ems to be in-
ktimatcd by {the :Proph€trr1fiiIzl/9, e who r does" not utter-

.1'yrdefiroy either? »Smzr or Moon, but fayes, they {hall

neither rifle nor flat; becallfif the Lord ~/ball be I/96: ever-

1aflingLzg/mrrof his newérefined‘   worildsar   N ay, for

far fhailgthe Sun and Mtmrteebé from being deffrogfd,
?as;the: fame Prophet fayesgiitthat then t1be"]‘400”j j79rz//t be

wdrtrt/961, Light. of ‘t‘13,/5%.  tlniift/98 ‘Light Of 158 SW F’/Ill

be fez/en,-fi;la', If2tia;h.;g;o.f’.‘2  Bytwhich ntmflber of
Swen-fo  t we‘. are to. ‘underfiand thé: mofi perfeét

) .

tBtightn£{§.:[  QiaH~bee.£0m?€y’d~ ‘through thofe Or»  

;gans,;;tQ;§thee but  ~ I§Ihabita11ts‘~ of the
‘Q/61.e:butt;QlQrzfi’(1;§H€fl‘1»€€7Zr’&‘fi€1i§E4?‘I/94   t  f  r t
~  EQ,;}the€ thirfd -Argument, twat becaufe the
   muff,;thereforreht.,have
any ttEnd?,§ it‘ i$";a:BZ£ryt iil.t-{%3€:>nC1ufiOfl 5 For both the
.Aizgel£a'iidr .iJu1‘t nary, theyyery Hfiifi-qniy of Chriflf

jhallcver have an End.   ~   M In

  .; IE 5:

In the«IaPt;pIa'Ce,e hthefte Zis efoiliething « .:0f.R.ea:{?)‘n 

fbe giyen , ivh y neithere mg £1ewezzye;,e‘»ne5;~rae  not
_‘the Moon fhould Pzfi 422(1)’, <:)ther‘_W1,fe   ;tha:1by fufferlng
3 Chlaflngez Fo.r,I if itbe’ [nah 3etlQveIy,Pr01peét,tzlnti

to inciting to the Praifes of God, to behold thofe
great AV/Vonderfls [of the  Creator. ate ::;1L:1el1 :21 di-
fiancee   and   with an4_i1nperf€§&  Eye  5 VVha“te willetgéfit
 ~_—~th0fE_=; eurénewed €;r;eatutfeS_%;%.‘ When ‘ they fhéfl
‘behold   thofe. afiénifhinge  Miracleste \.of‘ their God and
i‘Redeetner “With fuch>a~fL}Ht, fo 11_eé’.ir,.and fi1c'h a. perfeét
View?    V            
T To go 51 little   fartheg land thve a flittilei deeper
into this Métfiét} If  VVOr1id :W€r£t-t0= be  entirely
defir¢y’d§ ,; étnd*3.,e0n{un1’dt g  eeFire5~ the
Botiies bf men he at thgt \(u,er\y.rn(it£‘I1ent;t.whie.h"ate thefi
to  ra_'13’Ld~_      

thoE:nun1be‘r§e‘*bF ‘CorpQ1je31:1[Saitltsy th2it-.f}1:3;H‘Tbe.   

mg n at‘ fhathew time; ,"a'I1‘d._ ;fl!3;:11siifl§iH.?;P1f9b3‘5ifitY>‘ 
vet tafte of Death —.>§‘ FQr‘~§er*taiIfly  theyfittmeuft »be
in efome Certain pIace,_e;Plzzce%: being? 1;1(j-Qffie‘1."I‘thQ.;H the
intenriont Snrfaceiof a  thatch ieontains artd tenvirdns
anott-1eei._ *           A 
Ah ‘ And ‘ heigétinb, % Where ebe,__ that;;;R‘efidenceI *ir1Vthe.t
Heavens, that »  h ftj)ee0i%§3I1f13l”OII1iS5’d :6 the
Saintégtif thereifhould behd, mdT€..H545U9”’ 3 ¥I11*VVh3t

  part ofthe   VV;orld hfl1all Hell be-ep1a’C’d,‘tWith;WhiCh=
the Reprobate are {O 0ftejn—e;—ther€&tn;€_d,t ifthere ‘Were td I

be fldmbre  WorId. tFbt{:,it C& I]flQf__.bCeiII13.giI1,d~‘bUt

{hit Hell hiisj Jtheguniverfe ;,,S.0me  

39 fahfhdipfiflt ff0I1i  ;C_oInf0rt‘ of the Sun}, ais..hthe \
5iiI1  Jbelow the incomprehenfibleee Extent of_DiVlne n

E e " G104

\

Glory 2‘ and yet Within the Verge and ’C1rcumfCri>1:,;

eon of the created Mafia.     the Fallfof the

Angel‘s could not but be forelleeri,   To the Plaicre 
lthéir deftruétion could not be unprepafd; A, e L

-   So then, upon the Whole, Ilay, that there is   
Authority to he gathered out   of the Holy Sérips
tilie, that the Subflance and Being; of the
final! perifb, but that onely - the   Fi_and Aecidents
thereof lhall be cbanga’. For lywhichg St.   -70/m, in his
Revelation, Writing upon this particular,Subjeé‘t, gives

. us a molfapparent l’EVidence  ’ the one and" twentieth

  piam, not to annihilate,. andeireatee again.

Chapter, Where he (ayes, %  I head a‘  item
Heaven, fizyiag, tithe; Tabemaclea  G54  wit/9.  mi
and be will dwelf r*.witb them;  plainly ‘denotes;
that Men fhall not change their iHahitation,l but that
Chrill:   Will rather conclefcenel5 ‘toe refide‘ and dwell with
them. Onely, faid he that fate uponir the Throne, Be-*4
hold, I: imakz all thing} new, that is, by Renovation, not
by Creation,‘ for that the Original inipllies; iyococtivlori:
ms. I make, not I create, all things ‘new. Arid ; the
Word k’ocLvo7rollévy/fignlfiés imzavare aliquicl ylzzotmm zalrga qua;

I

. ‘ St. jérom alfoi interprets other Words’ hoof the  Pjalaiiflty  l

the fame fenfe, Pfalm 102.  eafie, lfaithy iytojudgeé

 2%;/oat tbtfi word: do declare aflilfbre-tellitavt ‘an,entire;Ri1+-;

3116, but nab at better change.  St.  is alto ‘of

\ /Opinion, that the lalt Fire {hall 'onl5y‘burn ,anycijEon-LL .

fume mix’d Bodies. ("thole 5 ef” excepted; are
deliirfd to Immortality;  fbi‘ '~fl’1al."", as  Eleét
of God, the Fire lha-ll have he more power tothurt a
  a e them

'‘.(I“i\7fi .

  them, théh it had to in jui-e the ithiiee Chiiarenin the

‘fiery Furnace 5: Neither {hall it corifuiiie the Bddies

  of the damneci, ho: itheiiirw Soiuis,  lefs  more
folid Subihmce of the Earth.   And thefeare the Rea?

  fans and Authorities which ineline the to believe that

the World {hall not be totally ednfurried,  (finely
purify’d by Fire; arid WhiCh‘:I.d0i riot find to be C6114
ftrary to i any Article of our Creed;   ,

 

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