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Rh Though cedar, olive, vine, and fir oppoſe,

And all the ſhrubs that in the world there grows:

If orange with the roſe and lilly join,

The Irish harp ſhall looſe its grand deſign.

An ancient Prophecy of.

ROM Christ’s birth count thouſand years compleat,

And add five hundred more with eighty eight;

That year approaching all men will affright

With woful terrors which on them will light,

If the whole world do not to ruin run,

Or into nothing land and ſeas be done,

At leaſt ſome realms ſhall topſie turvy turn,

And men on all lands lamentably mourn.

his great divine, in a time when it was leaſt expected the papiſts ſhould gain any power or advantage, declared, that he confidently expected great calamities, and that a ſad perſecution would fall upon the proteſtant churches of Europe: therefore, ſaid he to his friend that made further enquiry: Fool not yourſelf with hopes of its being over, I tell you that all you have yet ſeen is but the beginning of ſorrows, to what as yet to come upon the proteſtant churches of Chriſt, who will o'er long fall under a ſharper perſecution than ever has yet been upon them; and therefore, ſays he, look you be not found in the outward court, but a worſhipper in the temple before the altar, for Chriſt meaſures all thoſe that profeſs his name, and call themſelves his people, and the outward worſhipper he will leave out to be trodden down of the gentiles. The outward court, ſays he, is the formal Chriſtian, whose religion lies in performing the out-ſide duties of chriſtianity, without having an inward life, and power of faith and love, uniting them to Chriſt; and theſe God will leave to be trodden down and ſwept away by the gentiles, but the worſhippers within the temple and before the altar, are thoſe that indeed worſhip God in ſpirit and truth, whoſe ſouls are made his temples, and he is honoured and adored in the moſt inward thoughts