I will only add one Remark more, before we leave this Subject, to prevent a Mistake in the Word _Immortal_ or _Immortality_, when applied to the World. As I told you before, the Equivocation that was in that Term _World_, it being us’d sometimes for the whole Universe, sometimes for this inferior Part of it where we live; so likewise we must observe, that when this inferior World is said to be _Immortal_, by the Philosophers, as sometimes it is, that commonly is not meant of any single State of Nature, or any single World, but of a Succession of Worlds, consequent one upon another. As a Family may be said Immortal, not in any single Person, but in a Succession of Heirs. So as, many Times, when the Ancients mention the Immortality of the World, they do not thereby exclude the Dissolution or Renovation of it; but suppose a Vicissitude, or Series of Worlds succeeding one another. This Observation is not mine, but was long since made by _Simplicius_, _Stobæus_, and others, who tell us in what Sense some of those Philosophers who allowed the World to be perishable, did yet affirm it to be immortal: Namely, by successive Renovations. Thus much is sufficient to shew the Sense and Judgment of Antiquity, as to the Changeableness or Perpetuity of the World. But ancient Learning is like ancient Medals, more esteem’d for their Rarity, than their real Use; unless the Authority of a Prince make them currant: So neither will these Testimonies be of any great Effect, unless they be made good and valuable by the Authority of Scripture. We must therefore add the Testimonies of the Prophets and Apostles, to these of the _Greeks_ and _Barbarians_, that the Evidence may be full and undeniable. That the Heavens and the Earth will perish, or be chang’d into another Form, is, sometimes, plainly express’d, sometimes suppos’d and alluded to in Scripture. The Prophet _David_’s Testimony is express, both for the Beginning and Ending of the World: In _Psal. cii. ver. 25, 26, 27_. _Of old hast thou laid the Foundation of the Earth, and the Heavens are the Work of thy Hands. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: Yea, all of them shall wax old like a Garment; as a Vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed. But thou art the same, and thy Years shall have no End._ The Prophet _Isaiah_’s Testimony is no less express, to the same Purpose, _ch. li. 6._ _Lift up your Eyes to the Heavens, and look upon the Earth beneath: For the Heavens shall vanish away like Smoke, and the Earth shall wax old like a Garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like Manner._ These Texts are plain and explicit; and in Allusion to this Day of the Lord, and this Destruction of the World, the same Prophet often useth Phrases that relate to it: As the _Concussion of the Heavens and the Earth, Isa. xiii. 13._ The _shaking of the Foundations of the World, ch. xxiv. 18, 19._ The _Dissolution of the Host of Heaven, ch. xxxiv. 4._ And our Sacred Writers have