107:1 Book v. Chap. I .SeCi:. 7 foeve: now jhinn in comelJ and dec en~ order, fhnl/ at llljl burn toge~ ther m onf fire. · 2. The Poets grant this; Lucanfpea·king oftbofe whom Cafar left unburned at the Bartel of P hnrfa/ia ; Bus (J.efar popu/os ftwmc non ujJerit ignu, :~~ret cum terri.r-. - Jf fire jbnll not now ' burn theft, ·when heaven, ~nil earth, and all ]h~tlt buri'J, then mull they burne. - Ovid in ltke manner ,Ej[e quoque in f,uis - quo mare, quo tellm - arde11t. A time foal/ come, when Sea · 11nd earth, and ~tit the frame of'thugreat worldfball be confumed i~ jl~t7~· The Sybills grant this, to which the R.omane milfal feems to allude,joyning them with rhe Prophet 'David, though I know not by what warrant. 'Dies ·ine, dies il!a,folvet f.eculum in [avilla ufte 'Davidcum SJbi!!a. ' . A day of wrath, a day of ~re, So David with the Sybil!! doth con(pir~. But to wave all thefe, one text of Scripture is to me more than all rhefe. -- 2 Pet. 3· 10. The heavens /hall paJ[e awa.. ~ Per+ro, h . th hfi h ~ p·it agreat noife, 11nd e dements fha/l melt wit ervent eatr the earth alfo, alld the ~rkes thAt are thtreii!J foal! be burnt up~ Hence all our Divines agree, that a fire 111all ceaze on the univerfe, onely fome dirference is amongfl: Divines, whether rhe world tl1all be wholly annihilated,or renewed by fifie?{erome and AugHftine, and many after them fay, the end of rhis fire is for purifying and refining of the heaven and earth; for all corruptible qualities iliall be burnt out of them, but they in their. fub- \ fiance iliall remain Hill :· Ifwe ask them, to what end iliall this neather world be renewed? fome fay for an habitacle of therefiored beafis; others for a fitter accommodi- "'MunJudn mcliusimmutatfl4 a· tion ofmen, w ;rnd the glorified Saints; 6.- pertc accommodabiwr bomiuibus thers for a perpetual monument ofGods povV- _ inmeliP-simmuwio. Auguft. de d d fi - civit Dei. I. 20 ,,, 16 • er an: glory. P.ol~mu, an ~me of our Mo- .. Polan. syntag. (, 6. c. 70. dernes are of opmton, that thefe heavens, - · andthuer.rrhwhenpurifiedwith thofe fim, and J uperinveffed with new e~dowmentJ, they ford! be the ever/{lfting habitationJ ofthe bleJ[ed Samts. But on the conrr.uy, others are of the other opinion, that all the world with all the parts and - workes
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