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T he Opinions of the Ancient HeathsPhtlojophers , and other Writesconcerning the Dissolution.

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I count what the ancient Philosophyand Sages among the Heathens thought afl ddelivered concerning this Point. Twothe sour principal Sects of Philosophers h e ‘ da future Dissolution of the World, viz. T^ eEpicureans and Stoicks.

As for the Epicureans , They held thatthe World was at first com poled by the f° f 'tuitous concourle of Atomes, so it should &last fall in pieces again by their fortuito^Separation, as Lucretius hath it, lib.q.

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Principio maria ac terras cœlumque tuere,Horum naturam triplicempria corpora , 0^'mi,

Tres species tarn disimiles , tria talia text aZ/na dies dahit exitio, multo fque per annosSuftentata ruet moles & machina mundi■

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