The Judgment of the Wicked, and Punishment of 'em :

Hos immortalis incorruptiq; column.e

Ira Dei affiget, quam circuit undiq; flumen,
Indefeffo igni manans, & eos fimul omnes,
Eterni patris genii,

Ignitis flagris, inflammatifq; catenis,
Duris torquebunt pœnis, -----

Igni confecti multo: tum dentibus omnes
Stridentes, acri tabefcent vique, fitique.

The fecond Coming of Chrift is thus de-
clar'd:

Venit enim cæli vir ab altâ fede beatus,

Sibylline
Orac. lib. 2

Lib. 5.

Atq; folo cunctas urbes multo eruet igni.

In manibus geftans divino munere fceptrum,

The Happiness of the Juft after their Re-
furrection:

Aft alios, qui jus equum coluere, bonumq;
Sublatos genii rapidum per fluminis æftum
Ducent in lucem, & fecura munera vitæ,
Immortalis ubi magni via trita tenantis,
Fontibus & trinis vinum, lac, mella fcatebunt.
Non nuptus, non mors, non emptio venditiove,
Non occafus erit, non ortus: namq; creabit
Ille diem longam. -—~

The Juft, after the Millennium, must be
tranflated to another place:

boc conferet illis.

Namq; leget ftabiles, æternoq; eximet igni,
Perque fuos aliam in vitam mandabit, eamque
Eternam, nullo morituris tempore, campo
Scilicet Elyfio

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Lib. 2.

Rev. ch. 21.

Orac. lib. 5.

Rev. ch. 22.

A new Heaven and new Earth are defcrib'd, and no Sea; the Holy City comes down from God, as a Bride adorn'd; all things are made new; GOD will dwell with Men; new Ferufalem is defcrib'd after a glorious manner, by Jewels; there was no Temple in it.

The Hiftory of the End of the World precedes the new Jerufalem in the Defcription, but that is contemporary with the Millennium; as appears by the Sibylline Oracles:

Præcipueq; Deo dile&tam reddidit urbem,
Et Sole & Stellis & Lunâ fplendidiorem.
Illic ornatum pofuit: tum condidit almum
Corporeum pulchrum templum, turrimq; fub auras,
Multifq; in ftadiis magnam produxit, & amplam,
Ipfas tangentem nubes, cunctifq; videndam;
Omnes ut jufti videant, omnefq; fideles,
Splendorem æterni, spectacula dulcia patris
Ortufq; occafufq; Dei celebravit bonores.

All these Verfes are before the Fall of
Babylon by an Earthquake:

Famineum imperium deinde erit, totus annus
mite faculum.

Ultima fan&torum funt tempora

The clear River and Tree of Life represent old Paradife reftor'd; the twelve Fruits are the Jewish Church; the Leaves, the Gentiles. All are united into one Tree of Life, Chrift. There fhall be no more Curfe, nor unfruitful Land, nor Labour, Wars, Death, nor different Seafons of the Year: They who have a right

a right to the Tree of Life, muft enter
thro' the Gates of the City. Without are.
Dogs, Sorcerers, Whoremongers, Murderers,
Idolaters.

A Description of the Paradifiacal State:
Tunc hominum gignet puras in corpore mentes,
Reftituetq; genus, fuit ut tibi tempore prifco.
Fam nullo fulcos curvo profcindet aratro,
Terra nec à bobus ferro fcindetur acuto,
Nec fpica, nec erunt farmenta: fed omnibus una
Rofcida manna fimul mandetur dentibus albis.
Nec Deus abfuerit illi, qui cuncta docebit.
Contra iterum in terras vivent pietatis amici,
Ipfis dante Deo flatum vitamq; cibumque,
Sefe pii agnofcent, fefeque videbunt,

I have mention'd many Particulars in which the Oracles and Revelations agree, but that they were not wrote by any Christian after the Revelations, will appear by the want of thefe Particulars in the Oracles, which the Revelations mention :

1. The Vision of Chrift and the feven Candlesticks.

2. The Vision of God in his Throne, the feven Seals, and feven Trumpets, the Northern Invafions, are obfcurely and in general defcrib'd in the Oracles.

3. The Origin of the Saracens in Arabia are not defcrib'd, but only that they are the baftard Progeny of Abraham; and their Wars in Agypt are describ'd, with the Deftruction of them by the Holy War, Tartars and Turks.

Orac. lib. 7.

Lib. 4.

4.

In the fealed Book all the Alterations in the Roman Empire are defcrib'd in their order; and the fame order is obferv'd in the Oracles: 1st, The Deftruction of the Jews; 2dly, the idolatrous Romans; 3dly, the Northern Invafions; 4thly, the Saracens Empire; 5thly, the Turkish; 6thly, the Popedom rais'd. In the 13th Chapter the Beast, with all the Parts of the Roman Empire, is defcrib'd; and this is Antichrist : But in the defcribing of him he is divided into two, one part in the East, and t'other in the Weft, confider'd as two Beasts with diftin&t Faces. The want of diftinguishing the Faces of the Civil and Ecclefiaftic State in the Eastern and Western Empires, has bred an extream Confufion amongst Interpreters, who forfake the Hiftory of the East and West, at the 10th Chapter, and then lay all the Subject of the open Book at the Pope's Door, whereas the open Book first defcribes the Wars and Conquefts of the Saracens and Turks in the East, and the Rife of the Popedom, and afterwards the Fall of the Saracen Empire, by the Harvest and Vintage; the Fall of the Turk, by the Vials, and of Rome, in the 17th Chapter; but the Jews must first return. After the Destruction of the Turk and Pope, the Millennium muft fucceed, before Elias comes to destroy the World.

Since the Oracles declare many Circumstances of History not related in Daniel, nor the Revelations, as, the Turks conqueft

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of Greece, the return of the Jews from Perfia, the Wars in Afia, Thrace, Macedonia, by which the Turkish Empire must fall, and the Piratical Invasion by which Rome will Be destroy'd; I may conclude, that the Oracles are no Copies from the Jewish Prophets, nor the Revelations.

These things we may learn from the Oracles: That Babylon is to be diftinguifh'd from Rome; that after the Conquest of Greece and Egypt by the Turks, the Reformation must fucceed; and after that, in the beginning of the firft Vial, the Fems muft return; and, that after the Fall of Rome and the Turk, the Millennium nuft fucceed; a happy Paradife in this World, in which the firft Judgment and Refurrection of Just Men muft be; and after the thousand Years, the Refurrection and Judgment of the Wicked; then the World muft be burnt.

I omitted in its place this Obfervation, That the four Angels at Euphrates were prepar'd for a Month, a Year, a Day, an Hour, for to flay the third part of Men. The total of thofe Numbers are computed at 396 Years, during which time the Turkish Empire will come to its heighth; and it must be computed from the time the Turks invaded Afia, in 1075, to which add 396, the total will be 1471, the time of Mahomet the Great, who was call'd the first Emperor, after his Conquest of Conftantinople:

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