Tenaciously as he had held to the supposed scriptural view in so many other matters of science, in this he allowed his reason to prevail, accepted the demonstrations of Halley, and gloried in them.( 124) (124) For Heyn, see his Versuch einer Betrachtung uber die cometun, die Sundfluth und das Vorspeil des jungsten Gerichts, Leipsic, 1742.

A Latin version, of the same year, bears the title, Specimen Cometologiae Sacre.
For the theory that the earth encountered the tail of a comet, see Guillemin and Watson.

For survival of the old idea in America, see a Sermon of Israel Loring, of Sudbury, published in 1722.

For Prof.
J.Winthrop, see his Comets.

For Wesley, see his Natural Philosophy, London, 1784, vol.iii, p.