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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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^ and foretold; which, faith he , thecapture denies. We may invert this^gurnentation , and infer; Because the°rld doth not decay, therefore the timeits Dissolution cannot be known,out yet notwithstanding this, many haveJitured to foretel the Time of the End, the World , of whom some are alrca-v confuted , the Term presixt being past,the World still standing. Lad anti us0 his time said, Institut. lib. 7. cap. 15.f’nis expedatio non amplius quam ducen-ss Urn videtur annorum ; The longest expe-f tl °n extends not further than two hun~ffd years. The continuance of the^vrld more than a Thousand years since^evinces him of a gross Mistake. Pan-** Grebnerus a high Pretender to a Spirit- ^rophesie, sets it in the Year 1613.fjduced thereto by a fond Conceit of thepttieral Letters in the Latin Word Ju-Other Enthufiastical Persons ofown Countrey have placed it in thepars 1646. and 1656. The event strewsk°ty ungroundedly and erroneously. O-l hers there are, whose Term is not yetspired , and so they remain still to bec °nfuted. As those who conceit that the^d of the World shall be when the Pose-ur soall come to touch the Pole ot the

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