Men. In his time, and those that follow'd him, the Turkish Empire arriv'd to its greatest state; but when the Jews return'd from Perfia, it was moft evidently funk; and the first step of its great Declension was with a Plague.

The Trumpet fhall no more give its found for bloody Wars, neither shall their Enemies be destroy'd by furious Armies, for in that Age all Evils fhall ceafe, as if Trophies were fet пр for the Conquefts of them: Then one excellent Man fhall come from Heaven, who diftended his Arms upon the fruitful Tree, the best of the Jews, who formerly ftopt the Sun, crying with excellent Difcourfe from his pure Lips :

Note, That when the Jews return there will be a peaceable time, in which they shall build their Wall of their City as far as Foppa, which is abour 30 miles from Jerufalem; and from Joppa it is vifible. The Perfon who speaks is Jefus Chrift, as appears by his Crucifixion here intimated; and by his Power the Sun was ftopt in Foshua's days, who formerly led the Jews into Canaan; and 'tis Chrift who now brings them back, and speaks to them as follows.

after their Re

turn.

No more torment thy Mind, do not trouble The profperous thy Heart, thou that art begotten of God, ftate of the Jews abounding in all Riches, the Flower defir'd by God alone, the glorious Light, the pleafant Offspring, the defirable Plant. O Judaa! thou beloved and beautiful City, infpir'd with Hymns! the impure Grecian The King here King (Alexander) fhall not revel thro' the

Per

is, the Turk.

See the Song of

Perfian Country any more, having a Mind like to Bacchus for his Juftice; but thy illuftrious Inhabitants fhall honour thee, and fhall imploy themselves in holy and learned Mofes, Rev. 15, Songs, and all forts of Sacrifices and Praywhich the Jews ers, in honour of God: And for their fmall their Return, Afflictions, whofoever has born 'niuch Labour and Mifery, they fhall enjoy more and pleasant good things, who are Righteous; The Wicked are but the Wicked, who ufe their wicked Tongues against Heaven, fhall ceafe from their Calumnies which they spoke amongst

will fing upon

the Turks.

mine among the

Return of the

one another, and fhall hide themselves till A thowre of Fire the World is chang'd. There fhall fall hall caufe a Fa- from the Clouds a Showre of burning Fire, Wicked, at the and then Men fhall not gather fruitful Corn Jews; and the from the Earth; all Places fhall be unfame Fire, and plow'd and unfow'd till Men fhall acknowthe following ledg the Immortal God, who governs all may kill the Fish things, and always exifts, and no more worship mortal Men, and thofe that are Vial in the Re- dead, nor Dogs, nor Vultures, which A

Earthquakes,

in the Sea, and

be the fecond

velations.

gypt taught to worship, thro' their childish Difcourfes and foolish Advice. But the Land of the Hebrews is holy, and shall bear all things; there fhall flow Streams from the Rock and the Tongue fweet as Honey, and to all the Juft fhall flow the immortal There are they Milk; for they trusted in one God, the onwho got the Vi&tory over the ly excellent Father; that is, they were veBeat in Rev. 15. ry righteous and faithful.

Note, The happy state of the Jews is here des fcrib'd; and the Wicked (the Turks ) fhall hide.

them.

themselves during these Alterations, but shall fuffer a Dearth by the fiery Showre; and they fhall no more conquer Perfia, as they now poffefs Greece, and therefore are here meant by the Grecians. The Description of Judea is here, by its flowing with Milk and Honey; which is a Metaphor to express the abundance of its Provifions. The Plague is above intimated; and here the Famine caus'd by the fiery Showre is describ'd. And the next Punishment of the Turks is by Earthquakes; and this will occafion the Return of the Jews in a peaceable manner."

near the Sea;

the Sea.

Laodicea is now

that Name. 'Ti

But why does my Mind, full of Wisdom, Earthquakes de ftroy many Afuggest these things? Now, O miferable fiatic Cities fea Afia! I fadly lament thee, and the Nation ted on the River of the Ionians, Carians, and rich Lydians. and this is the Alas for Sardis, and the belov'd Trallis! fecond Vial on Alas for the beautiful City of Laodicea! because ye fhall be destroy'd by Earthquakes destroy'd by and reduc'd to Ashes: [The Towns over- but there are o Earthquakes; thrown by Earthquakes are ufually burnt by their ther Cities of own Fires. In dark Afia, and in rich Lydia, in Caria: Sardi the Temple of Diana, built at Ephefus, fhall is in Lydia,now fall into the Sea, by a great Hiatus in the fa is a Village: Darl Afia is Culo Earthquakes, and thereby be utterly ruin'd Syria. when the Storms drive the Ships, and ple is reprefen drown them: And Ephefus being over-ted a Turkilh thrown, fhall lament on the Shore, and feek Mofch, which i her Temple, which fhall be no more inha- John's Church. Diana's Templ bited. and the City is And then God, who is immortal, and now in Ruins, lives in Heaven, being angry, from Heaven fhall fend a fiery Storm against the

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Kingdom.

Men with great

"he Turks de- Impure Kingdom, and then there fhall be troy'd by Thun- Summer inftead of Winter: And this fhall er: They are a'd the Impure happen afterwards to Men; for the OmniThis s the 4th Vial, potent Thunderer fhall destroy all the Imoured on the pudent by Thunder, Lightning, and Thunuo, to forch derbolts, which fhall burn them who are perverfe and wicked, and extirpate 'em all, fo that there will remain more dead on the r'd by 6 Earth- Eartli than there is Sand. And Smyrna shall uakes, and the come lamenting their own Lycurgus, to the ill be ruin'd by Gates of Ephefus, and fhall perish more he 7th, but that than it.

eat.

myrna has fuf

reeks think it

tely happen'd.

rom Cuma in

Eolia was the

ibylla Cumana.

Note, That Sardi is in Lydia, Laodicea in Caria, and fo is Miletus. Cuma is in Æolia, Smyrna s Inhabitants in Ionia: Cuma in Italy is in the Kingdom of Narere dull and ples, famous for the Sibyl; but that is not here

upid. It fuffe

meant.

ed by an Earthuake in Tibe e's time, and But foolish Cuma, with its infpir'd Wauft again after he Jews return, ters, fhall be caft down by the Hands of the Gods, as well as thofe of wicked Men: No more shall thy Chariot afcend into the Sky, (or thou shalt not have any Honour) but thou fhalt remain dead at the Cumaan Waters, and then those who remain fhall fuffer Affiction together: When thou haft a Sign, thou shalt know for what thou fuffer'ft; for the People of Cuma are obftinate, and an impudent Tribe.

But when the wicked Land is burnt, Lef bos fhall be destroy'd for ever. [It is an Ifland, fo that Eridanus is here mistaken.]

Alas

Caria is now ir

Alas for Corcyra, [Corfu, an Island in the Ionian Sea a beautiful City! leave off thy Luxury. And thou Land of Hierapolis, a- Hierapolis in. bounding in Riches, [a City in Phrygia ma- Ruins. jor] thou shalt have the mournful Country which thou haft defir'd; thou shalt be thrown down near the Banks of the River Thermodon, [a River rifing in Pontus] and ftony Tripolis near the River Meander, [Tripolis is a Maritime City of Phoenicia, and Meander is a River dividing Caria from Ionia fill'd with the Tides at Night on its Shore, the Will and Providence of God fhall destroy thee utterly, and the neighbouring Country of Phoebus. O Miletus Miletus is not the delicate, whom a fiery Whirlwind from of Ruins, inte Heaven will destroy, Miletus was a City mix'd with in Caria, the Birthplace of Thales, and there It It reprefents t was the Oracle of Apollo Didymæus] be- Ruin of the bo cause it receiv'd the deceitful Oracle of dering Count Phoebus, and the wife Counfels of Men, and their prudent Advice!

Note, All the Cities mention'd are in Afia, or near it, and they will fuffer by Earthquakes or Thunder after the Return of the Jews; and thefe Cities were famous for Idolatry formerly, or great Wickedness. Cuma must be in Afia, where there was the Sibylla Cumana, for here the Sibyl prophefies of the Deftruction of the Afian Cities, and laments 'em. The ancient Hiftories of thefe Places åre mention'd in idolatrous times; but at the times of these Earthquakes there will be the Chriftian Worship of Saints, and Mahometanifm; and thefe are the Wicked, then to be destroy'd by K 2

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