amongst Mankind, and what shall be the beginning of these?

First the Titans fhall be deftroy'd by God's appointment, and the Sons of strong Saturn fhall fuffer Punishment, because they bound Saturn and the chafte Mother of his Children. Then will be the small tyrannical States in Greece; after them the proud, fierce, impure Kings, who were adulterous and very wicked: And there fhall be no Reft to Men from Wars, and the stupid Phrygians fhall all be deftroy'd; and then fhall be the Deftruction of Troy; then fhall Mifchief come upon Affyria and Perfia, Libya and all Egypt and Ethiopia: And Calamities will come on the Carians and Pamphy→ lians, and all Men.

But why do I reckon them fingly? When the first Evils end, the next will follow: I will defcribe the first or chief.

The holy Men fhall fuffer Calamities who live about Solomon's Temple, who are the Children of Juft Men, and I will also celebrate their Tribes, and the Generation of their Fathers, and all the People I will declare to you, O fubtil Mortals! all things plainly, after a various manner.

Troy deftroy'd.

There is a City in the Land of Affyria The original from whence came the Generation of the History of the Jews, and their Just Men, who always took good Counfels Religion. and did good Works: They are not folicitous about the Circular Motion of the Sun, nor of the Moon, nor other Works wonderful on the Earth, nor fearch the depth of

the

the ferene Ocean, nor the ominous Signs by Sneezing, or the Auguries by the flying of Birds, nor Prophecics, nor them who ufe Poisons, nor Enchanters, nor the Deceits of foolish Words fpoke by those who can fpeak from their Bellies without moving their Lips, nor the Predictions of the Chaldeans by Aftrology, nor by Astronomy; for all these things are Delufions which foolish Men daily invent, exercising their Minds in unprofitable Works, but by Deceit teach them to miferable Men; from whence many Mifchiefs happen to Mortals in the Earth, by caufing them to err from good Ways and juft Works: But they who study Righteousness and Virtue, and avoid Covetoufnefs, which produces an infinite number of Evils to Men, Wars and great Famines, thefe obferve the juft Bounds in their Fields and Cities; nor do they steal in the Night from one another, nor drive away the Herds of Bulls, Sheep, or Goats; nor does one Neighbour take from t'other the Limits of his Lands; nor does any rich Man opprefs his inferiour, nor afflict the Widows, but rather affifts them, fupplying them with Meat, Wine, and Oyl, being always happy in their People, giving part of their Harvest to them who have nothing, and to the poorer fort, fulfilling the Command of God, as a commendable Law; for God has made the Earth common to all Men. But when the People of the twelve Tribes, with their Leaders fent from God,

fhall

fhall leave Ægypt, and travel pleasantly, marching in the Night by the direction of a Pillar of Fire, and a Cloud like a Pillar leading them by Day: God fhall make Mofes their Leader, a Man of Renown, whom the Queen found near the Fenns, and took him up, and nurfed him, and call'd him her Son. He leading the People whom God brought out of Agypt to Mount Sinai, God there gave the Law from Heaven, writing all his juft Precepts in two Tables; and he commanded them to obferve 'em ; and if any disobey'd, he was punish'd according to the Law, and by human Hands; but if his Offence was unknown to Men, he was destroy'd by all forts of Judgments. God hath made the Earth common to all, and Faith and good Thoughts are put into our Souls; for these alone the fertile Earth produces Fruit, from one to an hundred, God giving it its measure. But Calamities fhall befal the Jews, and they fhall not escape the Plagues. And thou leaving the beautiful Temple, fhalt fly; for it is determined that thou shalt leave the Holy Land: And you fhall be led into Affyria, and you shall fee your young Children ferve cruel Men; and your Wives alfo, and all your Provifions and Riches, fhall be deftroy'd. All Countries fhall be fill'd with you, and every Sea, and all Nations will hate thy Manners and Customs. All the Land fhall be Defart to thee, and the Altars prohibited and defended against thee, and the Temple of the

Mofes led the
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great God, and thy large Wall, fhall all fall to the Ground, because thou didst not preferve in thy Mind the pure Law of the immortal God, but erroneously haft ferv'd unworthy Idols. Nor have you fear'd the immortal Father of the Gods, and of Men; and thou wouldst not honour him, but haft worship'd the Images of mortal Men. For thefe things thy fruitful Land fhall become a Defart to thee feventy Years, and so fhall thy wonderful Temple; but the End fhall be for good and great Glory, as God fhall perfect it, and a Mortal (Cyrus); but do you remember and believe the pure Laws of the great God, when he fhall lift up ftreight your weary Knees into a place of Light.

Then God fhall fend from Heaven a King, and he fhall prove every Man by Blood and burning Fire; but there shall be one Royal Tribe, whofe Generation is unblamable, and this fhall rule in future Ages, and begin to build a new Temple for God; and all the Perfian Kings fhall bestow Gold, and Brafs, and Iron, which is capable of much work; for God fhall give him in the This Dream is Night a holy Dream, and then the Temple hot mention'd in fhall again be built as it was formerly. Scripture.

When my Mind had ceas'd from delivering this Prophecy in Verfe, and I had entreated the great Father to ceafe from forcing me, the Voice of the great God came again into my Soul, and commanded me to prophecy thro' every Country, and to tell Kings what should come to pafs hereafter.

And

And this thing God first put into my Mind to fpeak; how many fad Calamities he had prepar'd for Babylon, because they had deftroy'd his great Temple.

it after its revolt

Alas alas for thee Babylon, and the Na- Cyr took Bation of the Affyrians! a howling Noife fhall bylon in the 20th of his Reign. pafs thro' that Land of wicked Men, and Darius alfo took the Shouts of Men for Victory fhall deftroy from the Perall the Country; and the great God fhall fans. confume and afflict it, who is the Author of my Song; for Vengeance fhall come on thee from the Air above, and an eternal Fury shall defcend from the holy places in Heaven upon thee, and fhall deftroy thy Children; and then thou shalt be as at firft, as if thou hadft not been born; and then thou shalt be fill'd with Blood, as thou haft fpilt the Blood of good and holy Men, which now cryeth to the high Heavens.

quer'd Agypt,

under Darius,

O Egypt a terrible great Slaughter Cambyfes confhall befal thee, which thou didst hope but it revolted would never befal thee; a Sword fhall pass from the Perfans thro' the midst of thy Land, and a Difper- their fixth King, sion, and Death, and Famine, fhall follow; and then became but in the seventh Generation of the Kings felf. thou fhalt have Eafe and Reft.

a Kingdom of it

which Alexan

Woe to thee, O Land of Gog and Magog, Mefopotamia, in lying between the Ethiopian Rivers! how der and Darius great an effufion of Blood shall be in thee! fought, and the and Men fhall call thee the Houfe of Judg the Parthians. ment; and thy Land, which is well water'd, fhall drink much black Blood.

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