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a change of the World into the nature or i $fiance of Fire. x. Heraclitus , as the ^ .Clemens /hews at large out of him in \.(ame place, ottw$';5 yruhiv ivoiXoLjjJ^dvf)•rngisratfa &c. And Laertius in the Li#Heraclitus , He taught sh -r komov, f

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vac. That there is but one World , dW t'rfwas generated out of Fire, and again lut# Jor turned into Fire at certain periods altersly throughout all Ages. I might add tod 1 .the Ancient Greek Poets, Sophocles and "philus , as we find them quoted byMartyr and Clemens Alexandrinus. N el |yet were thele the first Inventors and bror#ers of this Opinion, but they received # ^Tradition from their Forefathers,and 1°° ,upon it as an Oracle and Decree oi y 1 ^Ovul speaks of it as such in the first 01 1Metamorphosis;

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