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Three physico-theological discourses : concerning I. the primitive chaos and creation of the world. II. the general deluge, its causes and effects. III. the dissolution of the world, and future conflagration ... / by John Ray
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of the World.

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^ convener int: inundationem futuram ,

f . H ®° cadem syderum turba in Capricornosuit’s* 1 !?**’ ^orolus, ivbo interpreted Belus,

h i those things come to pafi accordingJ f course of the Stars: and he Jo confident -

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t]sjf lrrn<i it, that he astjgns the time both for«// ^° n fi a %, ra tion and Inundation. For that

■ths artbl y Bodies will be burnt up, when allj e ^ ar s Jhall meet in Cancer; and the Inun-Qtl ° n toil I fall out, when the Jame shall be in

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Junftion in Capricorn. Concerning the| atlsl er of this Conflagration, they held itbe sudden. Senec. Natura Jubitb ad& toto impetu ruit; licet adoriginemutatur viribus , dijpenfetque fe incre-fi^tis fallacibus. Moment 0 fit cinis,din fylva,qs" Nature doth suddenly and with all itss Ce rush on to ruin, though to the rife and\ at * on °f th/ngs it ujeth its Jlrength jpa-t j difpenjtng its influence , and caufingif* 1 * 0 & row h insensible degrees; a Wood is% in growing up, but reduced to Ashes almost

st moment. .4nd (bmc of them were io

j,J* r d as to think , that the Stars ihould§ and be dashed one against anotherss ec - lib.de confolatione ad Marciam: Cumssstcs advenerit ,• quoje mundus revocaturus, lH gttat , viribus ijla fe fuis credent; Jyde-a lyderibas incur rent ; (fl omni flagrant e ma-

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