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Of the Dissolution

nesi of its coming. That which hathoccasion to those other common Mistal^Vespecially the hideousnels of tholements which fell upon the People of t 1Jews y beyond all that ever before are res,ted to have fallen upon them , or indeed §ny other People, which made it nccefftO'for the Prophets, which were to describe(and who use Tropes and Figures , and ^plain Expressions, to set down their Predi# 1 .ons) to express it by these high Phrases,the passing away and dissolving ot Heaven pEarth and ElementSy which sbund^overy tragically, are mistaken for theand final Distolution of the World. So ^the Doctor. Two things there are in ^ ,|SChapter which seem to contradict thistcrpretation ; First, That the Destructi°fhere spoken of, is compared with Nos.Flood ; and the Heaven and Earth to be d»‘jsolved by this, made parallel, and of eq^,-extent to the World destroyed by that. 0this the Doflor was well aware, and thc( e ”fore grants that the seventh Verse , ButHeavens and the Earth which are now, by ! Jfame word are kept in j,lore , reserved unto P' ,against the day of judgment, and perdition vungodly men , is to be understood of the g eslC 'rai and final destruction of the World by

fire, but the following Verses to be an W

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