T A Word in Seafon. 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 disposed to receive the Blef fings of Peace: or could they be brought to understand and confider their true Interest: which cannot be expected without ftrictly pursuing the Methods of Juftice, without either Favour for or Prejudice against Any Perfon or Party whatsoever, 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. T The Introduction. PART I. I 1. The SWORD the proper Punishment of the Luft of the 8 Eye. 2. That this Fudgment shall Surely come. 10 3. An Objection answer'd. 17 4. A 2dobje&ion answer'd. 18 5. The End or Design of those Defolations. 21 6. The Region or Quarter where 32 37 42 The PESTILENCE. rife in the laft Days. 47 4. That there fhall be fore Difeafes in the last Days. so 5. That thefe Difeafes are the proper Punishments of the Pride of Life. 54 6. The material or inftrumental Causes of them. 59 7. That there (hall be a concur. rence of these Caufes in the latter Days. 66 8. Who they are that shall efcape this Evil. PART III 69 1. The FAMINE the proper Punishment of the Luft of the Flesh. 73 75 2. This Branch of Sin more 81 88 ted to Heat. Devouring Infects produc'd by Heat. 92 6. A Recapitulation of these three, Evils. ibid. 94 7. A Remnant saved. 4. Of the Mystical and Natu- 132 6. The Authorities for the Proof 7. The Types of Antichrift. ib. 15. A Digreffion concerning the 181 The Seventh Vial more diftinct- 143 1. The Great Earthquake which 16. The Oppofition between the 17. Antichrist's invading_the 26. Antichrift and the Falfe 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 Present 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 Worship: Extracted from Some Letters of his and other Manufcripts. LONDON: Printed for R. Knaplock at the Bishop's Head, R. and F. Bonwicke at the Red Lion, and H. Clements at the Half Moon in St. Paul's Church-Yard. 1713. |