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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 Dissolution

teria , Uno igne, quicquid mine ex dispofo 0cet ar debit. When the time shall come t 1 ^the Worlds again to restore and renew it rshall perish , these things shall batter ana ythemselves by their own strength , the Sts ^shall run or fall soul upon one another, andthe matter flaming whatsoever now accord |to its settled order and disposition shinethen burn in one fire. Here by the way'may with Dr. More [ Souls Immortality fit-)cap. 18 .] take notice how coursly, not to ?ridiculously, the Stoicks Philosophy‘ when they are turned out of their 0‘ way of Moral Sentences , and pretend‘ give an account of the Nature of Tb^i?

‘ For what Errours can be more gross y‘ they entertain of God , of the Soul, and

* the Stars ; they making the two fo>y

* Corporeal Substances, and feeding the‘ ter with the vapours of the Earth, aM 1‘ ing that the Sun sups the Water of j {

* great Ocean to quench his Thirst, but t j‘ the Moon drinks off the lesler Rivers ^

‘ Brooks, which is as true as that the

drank up the Moon. Such conceits

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‘ more fit for Anacreon in a drunken f )t: y* stumble upon, who to invite his Co^P‘‘ nions to Tiple, composed that Catch,

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