of the World.

^ n °t at all likely the World should last so: but the Conflagration or Destruction..itby Fire, predicted by the Scriptures,l *l certainly prevent it. 3. Possibly therep be something in Nature which may ob-late this Event, though to us at presentto tn ? Wn > w hich I am the more inclinablep Mieve, because the Earth doth not hastenj ‘ a st towards it as some of the Ancients^gined, and as the activity of such Cau-.\soight seem to require, as I have alreadystriated.

^arenius in his Geography putting theX^stion, Whether the Ocean may again^e to cover all the Earth, and make ant serial Deluge ; answers, That we may^Hceive a way how this may naturally comej. Pals. The manner thus; Supposing that. e Sea by its continual working doth un-rw^ine and wa(h away the Shores andthat are not rocky, and carry thei thereof down towards the middle, orN^Pest parts of its Channel, and so by de-*fill it up. By doing this perpetually,^ay, in a long succession of Time, carryv a Way, and it self cover the whole Earth.m ht it doth thus subvert and wasli away( L ‘Shores in many places is in experiencel 1 ' 0. About Dors in Holland and DullartFricfltnd, and in Zm/and many Villages,X x some

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