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of the World,

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The Sea drinks up the Vapour s tAnd the Sun the Sea.

, to be either sound out or owned by a< e *"ious Philosopher. And yet Seneca migh-ty triumphs in this Notion of fodderingt Stars with the thick Fogs of the Earth)<* n d declares his Opinion with no meandrains of Eloquence, (He.

,, As for the extent of this Conflagration,held that not only the Heavens should^ burnt, but that the Gods themselvesP °uld not escape Scot-free. So Seneca, Re-J Ht o mvndo , V Diis in mum confufis. When^ e World Jhall le dijfolved , and the Godsfounded and llended together into one. AndJftin, At que omnes par it er Deos Perdet noxjllua & Chaos. And in like manner a certainj iht and Chaos Jhall dejlroy all the Gods.^ot this wile Philosophy ? If their Morali-/'vere no better than their Phy sicks, their/v* man they boast of might be so denomi-avlippgton', as they of Gotham.

« &ut let us look a little further, and we. la h find that the Stoicks were not the first' ^hors of this Opinion of the Conflagrati-on ;