of the World.

rat son or corruption. They can contractn ° filth, and so need no expurgation by fire.

To this we answer, not in the words ofReuter, but our own, That it is an idle andE grounded conceit of the Peripateticks ,That the Heavenly Bodies are of their ownNature incorruptible and unalterable : for onf he contrary it is demonstrable, that manyof them are of the fame nature with theEarth we live upon, and the most pure, as^he Sun, and probably too the fixt Stars,‘Uffe r Alterations ; macula or opaque Con-cretions being commonly generated and dissolved in them. And Comets frequently,sometimes Mew Stars appear in the E-soerial Regions. So that these Argumentsare insufficient to exempt the Heavens fromDissolution ; and on the other fide manyPlaces there are in Scripture which seem tosubject them thereto : A’s P/al. 102. 25, 2 6.socited Heir. 1. 10. which hath alreadyoften been quoted , The Heavens are the^orks of thy Hands; They stall perist.Matth.* 4 * 35. Heaven and Earth stall past away."a. 65. 17. & 51. 6. The Heavens stall va-n ‘st away like Jmoke. Yet am I not of opi-soon, that the last Fire shall reach the Hea-vens ; They are too far distant from us toluster by it: nor indeed doth the Scriptureaffirm it ; but where it mentions the Dissolu-tion