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Three physico-theological discourses : concerning I. the primitive chaos and creation of the world. II. the general deluge, its causes and effects. III. the dissolution of the world, and future conflagration ... / by John Ray
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Of the Dissolution

CHAP. IX.

The Fifth Question answered ; Awhat Period of Time shall thebe dissolved ?

5. ^Tp H E Fifth Question is, At wb«jJL Period of Time sliall the VVorbe dissolved } I answer , This is absolut^vuncertain and indeterminable. For Wthis Dissolution shall be effected by * ,extraordinary Interposition of Provident?it cannot be to any Man known , uo» eextraordinarily revealed. And our Sa'' 1 'our tells us , That of that Day and Ho 11 ,-knows no Man, no not the Angels 0Heaven , &c. Matth. 24. 3 6. And ag^'AEls 1. 17. It is not lor us to know ^Times and the Seasons , which the »Kther hath placed in his own power. ^this Dr. Hakeivill brings as an Argurfl el !that the World decays not, neither tendto. Corruption ; because if it did, the tin?of its actual Dissolution might be colics