234 ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. Book IV. 



BOOK IV. 



Of the End of the Civilifed State of Man. 



CHAP. L 



An end of the Civ'difed Life^ and a Change of this Scene of Man, in' 

 not many Generations, — T'his to be proved by Arguments and Fa&s, 

 Arguments a priori, — from the Wfdom and Goodnefs of God, which 

 has allotted to all Atiimals a proper manner of Life, — T^he Civilif- 

 ed Life of Man being an Unnatural Life, he muft decline in healthy 

 and at lafl the Race will die out. — I'his would be a painful and 

 miferable death : — To be prevented, through the Divine Mercy, by 

 fome convulfion in Nature, as we are taught by Revelation, — A 

 new Heaven and a new Earth to fucceed, — and a more Righteous 

 and Pious Race to inhabit the new Earth. — Agreement, on tbisfub- 

 jedf, of Revelation with Reafon and the Nature of Things, — Impof- 

 fible thjt Man, fo various an A?iimal, and liahle to f many chaw 

 ges, Jloould lajl for ever, — or for a great nmnber of years. — Other 

 Animals, while in their Natural State, liable to no change in Size 

 and Strength, or in Longevity: — They exhibit no fymptoms of decay 

 or extinction, except by the operations of Man, — Man, in Civil 

 Society, exhibits every fymptom of change in thefe particulars. — 



Without 



