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' ies enim magnus Dei miUe annorum circulo

te> "minatur , stcut indie at Prophet a, qui dicit,^ H te oculos tuos, Domine, mille anni tanquamIes unus, 6 cc. Therefore because all the works°f God were perfected (or finis ed) in fix days ,u necessary (or necessarily follows) that thes r lcl shall continue in this jlate fix Ages ,is fix thousand years. For the great Day°f God is terminated in a Circle of fix thou-s l2 d years ; as the Prophet intimates , whoJ Q ith, 4 thousand years in thy fight , 0 Lord,Qte but as one day. S. Augustine I. io, de Ci-Vlt ate Dei. S. Uieronymus Comment. in Mich.

Most dear and lull to this purposelS Bustath. in his Comment, in Hexa 'mercnhctju&vctj t kIIsiv, & c. IVete fkon (faith he) that the Creation shall con-t s>ue till the end of the sixth Chiliad , because°d also consummated theVniverle in fix days-,

H d Isuppose that the Deity doth account, days°f a thousand years long-, for that it is said ,

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thousand years are in the fight of the Lordune day. Ho\a heir the most of them did^ propose this Opinion as an undoubted* r uth, but only as a modest Conjecture. And^ Austine is very angry with them, who^°hld peremptorily conclude from so slight^ Argumentation.

v. l’his Conceit is already confuted, and the0f hl hath long outlasted this ternyaccord-

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