of the World.

^hen shall a burning Flood flow from theHeavens on high,

jukI with its fiery Streams all places utterlyestroy, Earth, Ocean, Lakes, Rivers, Foun*tains, Hell,

heavenly Poles, the Lights in Firma-* ttient that dwell,

^°fing their beauteous Form shall beobfcur’d,and all

^ a 'Jght from their places,down from Heavento Earth shall fall.

^ow because the Verses now extant underne Name of Sibylline Oracles are all fuspect-^ to be false and PJeudepigrapha ; and many°ftheni may be demonstrated to be of no^eater Antiquity than the Emperour Anto-pj us hi S Reign : and because it cannot® proved, that there was any such thing inAncient genuine Sibylline Oracles-, 1 ra-^er think, (as I said before) that it was a9°ctrine of ancient Tradition, handed downthe fust Fathers and Patriarchs of the* °rkh Jofephus in his Antiquities runs it uphigh as Adam ; from whom Seth his SortReived it; his Father, faith he, foretellingdpa.vt'^ulv Tyl o\aiv eWdo'y, -r fxivXpd* r 7tvpjq y ■r &ia.v vtj v$tt1cc<

^at there should be a destruction of the U«T * n.veife f