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Of the Dissolution

CHAP. VII.

T he Third Queslion answered. Wbeth#shall this Dissolution be Gradtt*and Successive , or Moment aneo^and Sudden ?

3 .*npHE Third Question is, WhctW,J. shall this Dissolution he gradual a *successive, or momentaneous and sudden ?

I answer, The Scripture resolves for tj 1 ,latter, The day of the Lord shall come as a thmin the night a similitude we have often re-peated in Scripture, as in the tenth Ver lethis Chapter, in i Thejf 15. x. Rev.3. 3. an.16, 15”. And the Resurrection and ChangesThings, it is said lhall be in a moment , in t' 1twinkling of an eye , 1 Cor.i 5.52.. Conson^whereto both the Epicureans and Stoicks hf:their Dislblutions ot the World stiould be so"'den and brief, as Lucretius and Seneca in so cplace ’fore-mentioned tell us. And itsuitable to the nature of Fire to make a qui c ^dispatch os things, suddenly to consume an"destroy. .

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