Of the Dissolution

perishing so again, that I may borrow bHammond’s words, in his Annotationsthis place. And again, the word .

(faith he) being an Equivocal word, i sUeither for the luperiour Heavens, whet iEmpyreal or Ethereal, or for the fublun a \Heavens, the Air (as the word World >bther the whole Compages of the super 10and inferiour World, as the Author of l .Book De Mundo , ascribed falsly to Arififldefines , output ovopavS % T

Kj t3>v d* TbTvii <pu<nwv, The -y

jleme or Compages of Heaven and Earth , ^the .Beings therein contained : or else on!/the sublunary lower World) we mayresolve, that the ’Ougptvol and fL

ven and Host, or Elements thereof, ar® jjterally the sublunary Aereal Heavens,andthat is therein, Clouds and Meteors, ^Fowls and flying Creatures, and so, # &joyn with the Earth and Works that are t!^

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In prosecution of this Proposition, aiw jorder to the Proof and Confirmation, 3 jlikewise the clearing and illustration os lt . ) ' „shall, (i.) Give you what I find concer l1 !Jthe dissolution of the World ; i. In the^,ly Scripture. 2. In Ancient Christian ” 1ters. i . In the Heathen Philosophers 3

Sages.

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