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A58184	Three physico-theological discourses ... wherein are largely discussed the production and use of mountains, the original of fountains, of formed stones, and sea-fishes bones and shells found in the earth, the effects of particular floods and inundations of the sea, the eruptions of vulcano's, the nature and causes of earthquakes : with an historical account of those two late remarkable ones in Jamaica and England ... / by John Ray ...	Ray, John, 1627-1705.	1693 (1693)	Wing R409; ESTC R14140	184,285	437

ordinary and insignificant Accidents Dormire in utramque aurem sleep securely till the last Trump awaken them Or it may be answered That these Prophecies do belong to the Destruction of Ierusalem only and so we are not concerned to answer that Objection CHAP. IX The Fifth Question answered At what Period of Time shall the World be dissolved 5. THE Fifth Question is At what Period of Time shall the World be dissolved I answer This is absolutely uncertain and indeterminable For since this Dissolution shall be effected by the extraordinary Interposition of Providence it cannot be to any Man known unless extraordinarily revealed And our Saviour tells us That of that Day and Hour knows no Man no not the Angels of Heaven c. Matth. 24. 36. And again Acts 1. 17. It is not for us to know the Times and the Seasons which the Father hath placed in his own power And this Dr. Hakewill brings as an Argument that the World decays not neither tends to Corruption because if it did the time of its actual Dissolution might be collected and foretold which saith he the Scripture denies We may invert this Argumentation and infer Because the World doth not decay therefore the time of its Dissolution cannot be known But yet notwithstanding this many have ventured to foretel the Time of the End of the World of whom some are already confuted the Term prefixt being past and the World still standing Lactantius in his time said Institut lib. 7. cap. 15. Omnis expectatio non amplius quàm ducentorum videtur annorum The longest expectation extends not further than two hundred years The continuance of the World more than a Thousand years since convinces him of a gross Mistake Paulus Grebnerus a high Pretender to a Spirit of Prophesie sets it in the Year 1613. induced thereto by a fond Conceit of the Numeral Letters in the Latin Word Iudicium Other Enthusiastical Persons of our own Countrey have placed it in the Years 1646. and 1656. The event shews how ungroundedly and erroneously Others there are whose Term is not yet expired and so they remain still to be confuted As those who conceit that the end of the World shall be when the Pole-Star shall come to touch the Pole of the Equator which say they ever since the time of Hipparchus hath approached nearer and nearer to it That it doth so I am not satisfied but if it doth it is meerly accidental and hath no Connexion with the End of the World But the most famous Opinion and which hath found most Patrons and Followers even amongst the Learned and Pious is that of the Worlds duration for Six thousand years For the strengthening of which Conceit they tell us That as the World was created in six days and then followed the Sabbath so shall it remain six thousand years and then shall succeed the Eternal Sabbath Hebr. 4. 9. * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. There remains therefore a Rest or Sabbath to the People of God Here we see that the Apostle institutes a Comparison between the Heavenly Rest and the Sabbath Therefore as God rested upon the Seventh Day so shall all the World of the Godly rest after the Six Thousandth year For ●he that hath entred into his rest ceaseth from all his Works as God did from his Of this Opinion were many of the Ancient Fa●●ers as I shewed before grounding themselves upon this Analogy between the six days of the Creation and the Sabbath and the six thousand years of the Worlds duration and the Eternal Rest For saith Irenoeus in the place before quoted Hoc autem that is the History of the six days Creation and succeeding Sabbath est proeteritorum narratio futurorum prophetia Dies enim unus mille annos significat sicut Scriptura testatur 2 Pet. 3. 8. Psal. 90. 4. the Scriptures reckoning days of One thousand years long as in Verse 8. of this Chapter and in Psal. 90. 4. This is likewise a received Tradition of the Iewish Rabbins registred in the Talmud in the Treatise Sanhedrim delivered as they pretend by the Prophet Elias the Tishbite to the Son of the Woman of Sarepta whom he raised from the Dead and by him handed down to Posterity I rather think with Reuterus that the Author of it was some Rabbi of that Name The Tradition is Sex millia annorum erit mundus uno millenario vastatio i. e. Sabbathum Dei Duo millia inane Duo millia Lex Duo millia dies Messioe Two thousand years vacuity Two thousand years of the Law Two thousand years the days of the Messiah But they shoot far wide For according to the least account there passed a far greater number of years before the Law was given 2513. saith Reuterus and on the contrary less time from the Law to the Exhibition of the Messiah All these Proofs laid together do scarce suffice to make up a probability Neither do those Rabbinical Collections from the six Letters in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the first word of Genesis or from the six Alephs in the first Verse of that Book each signifying a thousand years or from the six first Patriarchs in the order of the Genealogy to Enoch who was caught up to Heaven and found no more add much weight to this Opinion S. Austin very modestly concludes after a Discussion of this Point concerning the Worlds duration Ego tempora dinumerare non audeo nec aliquem Prophetam de hac re numerum annorum existimo praefinivisse Nos ergo quod scire nos Dominus noluit libentèr nesciamus I dare not calculate determine times neither do I think that concerning this matter any Prophet hath predicted and defined the number of years What therefore the Lord would not have us to know let us willingly be ignorant of But though none but presumptuous persons have undertaken peremptorily to determine that time yet was it the common and received Opinion and Perswasion of the Ancient Christians that that day was not far off and had they been to limit it they would hardly have been induced to set the term so forward and remote from their own Age as by experience we find it proves to be but in their own times or shortly after and many places of Scripture seem to favour that Opinion so that some have presumed to say that the Apostles themselves were at first mistaken in this particular till after further illumination they were better informed But though this be too bold a Conceit yet that the Churches at least some of them did at first mistake the Apostles meaning in their Sermons and Epistles concerning this Point and so understand them as to think that the End of the World and final Judgment was at hand appears from 2 Thess. 2. 2. I beseech you Brethren that ye be not soon shaken in mind or be troubled neither by Spirit nor by Word nor by Letter as from us as that the day of Christ