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Whether fljall the Whole World be con*jumed and annihilated , or only refi-ned and purified ?

T Here remains now only the SeventhQuestion to be resolved, Whether shalll Iie World be wholly consumed, burnt upj^d destroyed, or annihilated ; or only re-lied, purified, or renewed ? To this I an-H-r, That the latter part seems to me morefrobable, viz. That it (hall not be destroyedj^d annihilated, but only refined and puri-, le d. I know what potent Adver-laries I havethis cafe. I need name no more thaner Win his Common Places, and Dr. Hake-^ in his Apology and the Defence oi it,^’ho contend earnestly for the Abolition or^nih lation. But yet upon the wholefatter, the Renovation or Restitution seems0 the most probable, as being most confo- •^nt lo Scripture, Reason, and Antiquity. The^ripture speaks of an or Resti-

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