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tioned by many, both Christian and - .Writers, as besides the fore-quotedFelix , Justin Martyr , Clemens Alexawt 1 *in q.Strom, Plutarch,Seneca , and others. * |

time of this Conflagration Seneca deterrny 1 , -not, but faith only, it shall be when & 'pleases. 3 Qucefl.nat.cap. 20. 8. Cum ^,visum, vetera staire, ordiri meliora ; Wld* ^Jballseem good to God to put an end to cthings , and to hegin better. Some therewho tell us of the Annus Platonicus ornus , by which they understand such a p e sod of time, as in which all the heavenly^,dies shall be restored to the fame site andstance they were once in, in respect of ^another : As supposing that all the Seven*nets were at the moment of Creation in ffirst degree of Hr, till they come all t° ^in the lame degree again, all that space 0time is called the Great Year, AnnusIn this Year they tell us that the heig^Summer is the Conflagration, and the dep 1of Winter the Inundation ; and some /m t0 clogers have been so vain as to assign the ^both of the Inundation and Conflagratj 0 ' 1 ’Seneca 3 Quest. Nat. cap. 2.0. Be r of us, qstlum interpretatus est , dicit, curst* ista J)'d c(tl . tfieri , adeo quidem astir mat, ut conflagf^ 1 ^.ni usque diluvio tempus affignet. Arfa ra

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