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The Wonderful Predictions, See. 3
exchange my ettate, no hot for all the kingdoms of the
world ; no, not for all the glory that’s on the earth : I find
my Redeemer’s love ftronger in my bonds than ever I did
in the days of my liberty, therefore I hold living here in
this world as death itfelf. I am as full of love and joy of
the holy Spirit, as ever a bottle was filled with new wine I
am ready to cry out, ‘ The Spirit of the Lord God is upon
me but I will not take it upon me to prophefy neverthe-
lefs, the Spirit of the Lord caufeth me to utter; this ufutped
authority, now in the hands of Cromwell, fhall fhortly be
at an end, England ihall be blefTed with meek kings, and
mild governments, powerful preachers, and dull hearers ;
good fermons to them will be as mufic to a (leepy man, they
fhall hear but not underltand, nor lay the word to heart, to
praffiie it in their lives, to walk by it. O England, thou
fhall wax old in wickednefs, thy fins abound like Sodom, thv
voluptuoufnefs fhall erv aloud for vengeance; the Lord ihall
threaten and chaffife thee, yet in mercy and love will he
look upon thofe that fear him, and call upon his name ; he
will fpare and fave them alive in the days of his anger, when
the wicked fhall be fitted from amongft you, as the chaff is
fifted from amongff the wheat: For out of thee, O England,
ihall a bright flar arife, whofe fight and voice fhall make the
heathen to quake and knock under, with fubmiflion to the
gofpel of Jefus ; he fhajl be as a fon of thunder in the ears
of the wicked ; as a lanthorn to the Jews, to lead them to
the knowledge of Jefus Chrift, the only Son of God, and
true Meffiah, whom they fo long miftrufted ; for the ihort
work fpoken of by the apoftle, which the Lord is to make
upon the earth, in the latter age of the world, cannot be
far off. Obferve, my dear friends, while you live, my cal¬
culation of the dates in the book of the Revelation, and
Daniel, which the Spirit of the Lord led me into, for the
Lord will reveal it to fome of his own, ere that time come;
for the nearer the time is, the feals Ihall be taken away, and
more and more Ihall be revealed to God’s people ; for the
Lord doth nothing without he-.reveal it, by his Spirit to his
fervants the prophets : he deftroyed not the old world,
without the knowledge of Noah, he did not overthrow So¬
dom and Gommorah without the knowledge of Abraham, I
do not mean now, that any new prophet fhall arife, but the
Lord by his Spirit, fhall caufe knowledge to abound amongft
his people, whereby the old prophecies fhall he clearly and
perfmly underftood. 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 tranflat-
ed out of the Hebrew language, as it is written on Seth’s
pillar in Damafcus, which pillar is faid to have ftood fince
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