of the World. 381

^heloiing or subverting great Cities, andJoying the Inhabitants in their ruins, or asJ? e Scripture speaks, Making of a City a heap,defenced City a ruin. Though these and -^ an y other Changes do frequently happen,

1 Uncertain Seasons as to us, yet are they so'^ered by • the wife Providence of the Al-^ghty Creatour and Governour of the^ 0r ld, as nearly to balance one another,

Jdto keep all things in an /Equilibrium; so^ as it is said of the Sea, that what itin one place , it loses in another , it maye said proportionablyof the other ElementsJ’d Meteors; That, for Example, a longjyOught in one Place is compensated proba-at the seme time by as long a Rain inpother; and at another time, the Scene1|ng changed, by as durable a Drougltf: in* lls > as lasting a Rain in that. The same^ a y be said of violent and continuing Heats^ Colds in several Places, that they havej le like Vicissitudes and Changes, whereby inie whole they so balance and counterpoisejj ne another, that neither prevails over other,

^ Continue and carry on the World as finelysteddily, as if there were no such Gon‘Pieties and Fights, no such Tumults andj ^motions among them. The only Ob-^>on against this Opinion,is the Longævity0 die Antediluvian Patriarchs, and of some

also