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A58173	Miscellaneous discourses concerning the dissolution and changes of the world wherein the primitive chaos and creation, the general deluge, fountains, formed stones, sea-shells found in the earth, subterraneous trees, mountains, earthquakes, vulcanoes, the universal conflagration and future state, are largely discussed and examined / by John Ray ...	Ray, John, 1627-1705.	1692 (1692)	Wing R397; ESTC R14542	116,553	292

in the sun and in the moon and in the stars the sea and the waves roaring he adds as a Consequent thereof Vers 26. Mens hearts failing them for fear and for looking after those things that are coming on the earth And indeed how could any Man possibly be buried in so profound a Lethargy of Senselessness and Security as by such stupendious Prodigies not to be rowsed and awakened to an expectation of some dismal and tremendous Event How could he sing a Requiem to his Soul and say Peace and Safety when the World so manifestly threatens Ruin about his Ears For the reconciling of these Expressions to this sudden coming of our Saviour to Judgment it were most convenient to accept them in the Figurative and Metaphorical Sense For if we understand them of the Ruins and Devastations of Cities and Countries the Changes of Governments the Subversions of Kingdoms and Commonwealths the Falls and Deposings of Princes Nobles and Great Men these happening more or less in every Age tho the serious and inquisitive Christian who searches and understands the Scriptures may discern them to be the Signs of the World's Catastrophe yet the careless and inconsiderate the vicious and voluptuous are not like to be at all startled or moved at them but may notwithstanding looking upon them as 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 Jerusalem only and so we are not concerned to answer this 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. Hakewyll 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 Scripure 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 fore-tell 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. c. 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 Judicium 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 merely 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 Heb. 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 Fathers 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 Irenaeus lib. 5. cap. ult Hoc autem that is the History of the six days Creation and succeeding Sabbath est praeteritorum 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 Jewish 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 millenaria vastatio i. e. Sabbathum Dei Duo millia inane Duo millia Lex Duo millia dies Messiae 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 time of 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 But though none but presumptuous persons have undertaken peremptorily to determine that time yet was it