A Word in Seafon.

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HE Author is not infenfible that the Publication of fuch a Treatife as this at a Time when the SWORD (the first of Evils here treated of) is now ready to be fheathed in these Parts of the World where it hath fo long and fo cruelly ravaged, will be judged by a great many very Unfeasonable. And fo indeed it would be, were but the Minds of People difpofed to receive the Bleffings of Peace: or could they be brought to understand and confider their true Interest: which cannot be expected without ftrictly purfuing the Methods of Juftice, without either Favour for or Prejudice against Any Perfon or Party whatfoever, and by closely adhering to the immutable Standard of God's Everlafting Truth, without which no Establishment of Man can long ftand. No doubt had we lived in Nineveh in the Days of Jonah, or in Babylon in the Days of Daniel, there are great Numbers among us that would have thought the Preaching of the former and the Interpretation of the latter not more Seafonable than This now is. But Nineveh was reprieved from its impending Ruin by Attention to the One: and Babylon which repented not perished with its King: and fo muft Spiritual Babylon likewise with her King, and all that drink out of her Cup, except they repent.

The

The CONTENT S.

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THE Homily of St. Ephrem. 8. Who they are that shall e-
Page xxix. fcape this Evil.
The Opinion of Dr.Grabe. Ixi.
PART III.
A Word in Seafon. lxxxii.

The Introduction.

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1. The FAMINE the proper Punishment of the Luft of the Flesh. 73

2. This Branch of Sin more particularly confider'd. 75 3. That this Sin does ufually produce this Punishment. 77 4. That there shall be great and univerfal Famines. 81 5. The Caufes of this Evil exceffive Heat. This prov'd from Scripture. 86 Blights, Mildews, &c. impu

ted to Heat.

88 Devouring Infects produc'd by Heat.

PART I.

1

8

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1. The SWORD the proper
Punishment of the Luft of the
Eye.
2. That this Fudgment fhall
furely come.
3. An Objection answer'd. 17
4. A 2dObjection answer'd. 18
5.
The End or Defign of those
Defolations.
6. The Region or Quarter where
thisFudgment fhall begin. 23
7. A Remnant faved.
8. The Manner of their Pre-
fervation confider'd.
9. A Recapitulation of this
whole First Part.
PART II.

2. I

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32

37

42

43

47

The PESTILENCE.
1. The Pride of Life.
2. Ibid. further confider'd. 44
3. That this Sin will be very
rife in the laft Days.
4. That there fhall be fore Di-
feafes in the last Days. 50
5. That thefe Difeafes are the
proper Punishments of the
Pride of Life.
54
6. The material or inftrumen-
tal Caufes of them.
7. That there fhall be a concur-
rence of these Causes in the
latter Days.
66

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92 6. A Recapitulation of these three, Evils. ibid.

94

7. A Remnant saved.
8. The Manner confider'd. 97
9. An Addrefs to those who
are unqualify'd for Preferva-
tion.
98
10. Of the other leffer Evils
that shall prevail at that time.

100

Upon the GENTILE

Apoftatized Church.

AGAINST THE

Modern Hypothesis of some Eminent Apocalyptical Writers.

In Four Parts.

To which is prefix'd,

A PREFACE fuited to these Prefent Times:

AND

A Difcourfe of St. Ephrem Syrus concerning ANTICHRIST and the End of the World: Done into English from the Greek, with NOTES.

Together with

Dr. GRABE's Opinion of the SCRIPTUREPROPHECIES concerning the Church of Rome; and his REASONS why the Spiritual Adultery of the faid Church is not properly an Antichriftian State of Worfhip: Extracted from fome Letters of his and other Manufcripts.

LONDON:

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