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ut now to prove all this; first cast an Eye,look on all below, on all on high,he solid Earth, the Seas, and arched Sky :->"5 fatal hour must ruinc all,h*s glorious Frame, that stood so long,mustfall.

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Opinion of theirs is consonant enough0 their wild Principles, save only in thatnt of its suddenness, Vm dies dalit exi-?0 > &c. one day shall destroy or make ann d of it.

v. T’lie Stoicks were also of Opinion that the5 °rld must be dislolved , as we may learnjh>m the Seventh Book of Laertius in theI of £010, ’Aglœm M al-mq, Sic. TheyK°'d that the World is corruptible for thesej^asbns,* i. Because it was generated , anda beginning. 2. Because That is corhptible in the whole, whose parts are cor-hptible: But the parts of the World are° rr uptible, being daily transmuted one in-? Another. 3. That which is capable ofstation from better to worse is corruptible.^ such is the World ; sometimes being af-, 1( ^ed with long Heats and Droughts, seme-mes with continued Showers and Inundati-„ ris - To those we may add 4. according to°tpe of their Opinions,Because the Sun and

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