Conflagration of the Earth

The eventful period when this globe, or "the fabric of the world,"[1] will be "wrap'd in flames" and "in ruin hurl'd," is described in language, or at least, in sense similar to the quotations of our correspondent in p. 89., by the poets, philosophers, fathers, and divines here referred to:— Lucan, lib. i. 70. et seqq. 75.:— "Omnia mistis Sidera sideribus concurrent." Seneca *ad Marciam*, cap. ult.:— "Cum tempus advenerit, quo se mundus renovaturus extinguat, viribus ista se suis cedent, et sidera sideribus incurrent, et omni flagrante materia uno igne quicquid nunc ex disposito lucet, ardebit…