mony, or to make the same prediction. But being
under one common influence and inspiration, which
is always consistent with it self, they have dictated
the same things, tho' at two thousand years distance
sometimes from one another. This besides many
other considerations, makes their authority incontestable. And upon the whole account, you see, that
the doctrine of the future Conflagration of the World,
having run through all Ages and Nations, is, by the
joynt consent of the Prophets and Apostles, adopted
into the Christian Faith.
CHAP. IV
Concerning the time of the Conflagration, and the
end of the World. What the Astronomers say
upon this Subject, and upon what they ground
their Calculations; The true notion of the Great
Year, or of the Platonick Year, stated and
explained.
HAVING, in this first Section, laid a sure foundation as to the Subject of our Discourse; the
truth and certainty of the Conflagration whereof we
are to treat; we will now proceed to enquire after
the Time, Causes, and Manner of it. We are naturally more inquisitive after the end of the World, and
the time of that fatal revolution, than after the causes
of it: for these, we know, are irresistible, whensoever they come, and therefore we are only sollicitous
that they should not overtake us, or our near posterity. The Romans thought they had the fates of their
Empire in the Books of the Sibyls, which were kept
by the Magistrates as a Sacred Treasure. We have
also our Prophetical Books, more sacred and more
infallible than theirs, which contain the fate of all
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