3. As radiant caloric; flying off in ftraight lines;-which is actual burning;-and renders metals red-hot ;-exhibiting the appearance of fire.

4. As flame; -which is ignited vapour.

5.

As luminous meteoric—or phosphoric vapour;-which, in many inftances, feems evidently to be neither flame, on the one hand, nor the electric fluid on the other.

6. As the electric fluid.

7. As light.

But whether the electric fluid, and light, be in reality portions of the (caloric or) elementary fluid of heat, exifting in more perfectly elaflic, and in perfeâly different ftates-or whether they be, each of them, perfectly dif tina elementary fluids ;-it is manifeft, from many electrical experiments, and from many experiments on phofphoric bodies, that both be emitted, without the bodies that emit them being at all either in an ignited-or even in an beated flate.

may

V.

A DISSERTATION

CONCERNING

ΤΗΕ WORD ΑΙΩΝ.

VOL. III.

No. V.

A DISSERTATION

CONCERNING

THE WORD ΑΙΩΝ;

AND CONCERNING

FUTURE EXISTENCE:

REFERRING TO

Vol. I. p. 211, Octavo Edition ;

AND TO

P. 137, Quarto Edition.

THE meaning of the word 'Av appears

to deserve deep attention, and to be still more fully confidered; for there is a most sublime use of it, by the holy Pfalmift, in the 48th Pfalm; where we find it manifeftly applied with feveral diftinctions, as relating to very different, and greatly-extended states of du

ration,

ration, in which every living foul is concerned.

It is in the laft verfe, which is the 15th in the Septuagint, and the 14th in our translation:

Ver. 15. Ὅτι ὗτός ἐςίν ὁ Θεὸς, ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν εἰς τὸν ἀιῶνα,

Καὶ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα τὸ ἀἰῶνος.

Αὐτὸς ποιμανεῖ ἡμᾶς εἰς τὰς

αιώνας.

For this God is our God through THE AION, and through THE AION OF AION. He fall be our Paftor, (or Guide,) THROUGH THE

AIONS.

Here we find diftinctions concerning the Aion-the Aion of Aion ;-and the Aionsthat are very fimilar to thofe of gavos ;ő and ὅ ἐρανὸς τῷ ἐξανε ;—and ἤ ἐρανὸς τῶν ἐρανῶν ; -and of a garai Tv gave-mentioned already*, the Heaven,—and the Heaven of Heaven, and the Heaven of Heavens,-and the

* Vol. I. p. 134, 135, octavo edit.; and p. 85, 86, quarto edit.

Heavens