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4 before the flood, and was built by Seth Adam’s son, and written by Enoch the prophet; as likewise the holy precepts, whereby the patriarchs walked before the law was given to Moses, which was also engraven on the said pillar, whereof many Jews have copies in their own language, written on parchment, and engraven on brass and copper, but the alteration of the date makes them to stagger at it, not knowing that the dates were to be altered by the birth of Christ. First, this prophecy is intitled, ‘A short work of the Lord’s in the latter age of the world.' Great earthquakes and commotions by sea and land shall come in the year of God 1729, great wars in Germany and America 1780; the destruction of Popery, or Babylon’s fall, in the year 1790; God will be known by many in the year 1795; this will produce a great man. The stars will wander, and the moon turn as blood in 1800; Africa, Asia, and America will tremble in 1785; a great earthquake over the whole world in 1781, God will be universally known by all. Then general reformation and peace for ever, when the people shall learn war no more, happy is the man that liveth to fee this day.

Sweet Heart.

Efore I write further, I befeech you to think not that it is your wife that now writeth to you: I hope thou hast freely given up thy wife and children to the Lord God, that said, Jer. xlii. it. ‘Leave thy fatherless children, I will ‘preserve them alive, and let thy widows trust in me.’ O that the Lord would keep thee from haying one troubled thought about thy relations. I desire to give thee freely up into the Father’s hands, and not only look upon it as a crown of glory for thee to die for Christ, but as an honour to me, that I should have a husband to leave for Christ. I dare not speak to thee, nor have a thought within myself of my unspeakable loss, but wholly keep my eye fixed upon thy unspeakable and inconceivable gain. Thou leavest but a sinful mortal wife, 'to be everlastingly married to the King of glory; thou leavest but children, and brethren, and sisters, to go to the Lord Jesus thy eldest brother; thou leavest friends to go to the enjoyment of holy angels, and to the spirits of just men made perfect ; thou dolt but leave earth for heaven; and if natural affections begin to rise. I hope that spirit of grace that is within thee will quell them, and knowing that all things here below are but dung