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 his own, ere that time come, for the nearer the time is, the ſouls ſhall be taken away, and more and more ſhall be revealed to God s people; for the Lord doth nothing without he reveal it, by his Spirit to his ſervants the prophets: he deſtroyed not the old world, without the knowledge of Noah, he did not overthrow Sodom and Gommorah without the knowledege of Abraham. I do not mean now, that any new prophet ſhall ariſe, but the Lord by his Spirit, ſhall cauſe knowledge to abound amongſt his people, whereby the old prophecies ſhall be clearly and perfectly underſtood. And I die in that thought, and really believe, that my calculation on the Revelation by St John, and the prophecy which St Jerome copied off, and tranſlated out of the Hebrew language, as it is written on Seth's pillar in Damaſus, which pillar is ſaid to have ſtood ſince 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 1779, 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 1783 a great earthquake over the whole world, in 1785, God will be univerſally known by all. Then a general reformation and peace for ever, when the people ſhall learn war no more, happy is the man that liveth to ſee this day.