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Tops of Trees. would furpafs all Credit to give you every particular Circum⚫ftance of this fuprifing Cataract; which still continues to discharge a large Quantity of • Water, of fuch a • ftrange Nature as to • tincture all the River • Derwent quite down to the Sea; which must be near twenty Miles. The Damage • done to the Hay,

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(53.) 'Tis here foretold, that the People fhall be troubled at fuch ftrange Appearances.

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prietors of the neighbouring Fields and Houses, is computed at near 4000 l.' (53.) This already begins to be fulfilled, and many are now fo affrighted at the London Earthquakes, as to be ready to leave the City; nay, not a few went beyond Sea very lately upon a frivolous Rumour of a Dæmoniacal Madman, that there would be a third Earthquake just four Weeks after the fecond; because the fecond had been juft four Weeks after the first, a vast Multitude, fuppofed by fome no fewer than 100,000 left their Houses the Evening before, and went into St. James's and HydePark, &c. and many ftaid

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(54) 'Tis here foretold, that a Person, or People, fhall rule whom the World looked not for; viz. as I fuppofe, the Meffiah, and his formerly contemptible People the Jews.

(55.) 'Tis here foretold, that at this Time the Air fhall be changed.

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ftaid there, or fat in their Coaches, for Fear of it.

(54.) This will foon be fulfilled, when in the Words of Ezekiel, The dry Bones, or whole Houfe of Ifrael will live, and when God will make the two Bodies, of the Ten and of the Two Tribes one Nation, and one King fhall be King to them all--When David, God's Servant, or the Meffiah, fhall be King over them, &c.Ezek.xxxvii. per tot.

(55.) This has already been fulfilled in Part, if not in Mr. Childrey's ftrange Atmosphere about the Sun; which is either a new Phænomenon, or one newly difcovered: Yet certainly, by the numerous and furprifing Meteors, or Northern Lights, Balls of Fire, Storms of Thunder, Lightening, and Wind, is fhewn, that this Change

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Change is begun already, and probably will be more and more remarkable hereafter. Nor indeed can we have any aftronomical Notion, how the Light of the Moon can ever be as the Light of the Sun; or the Light of the Sun be fevenfold, as the Light of feven Days, as it is If.xxx. 26, already quoted, Pag. 6,7, prius,unless our Air, or Atmosphere, be fo throughly altered, and its noxious Vapours fo throughly purged away, that the Light of the Sun, Moon, and Stars, may appear fevenfold as bright as they do now, which it is no unreasonable Thing to expect at this great Renovation of Things, of which we now treat; though I will not deny, but fomewhat more mysterious may not improbably be implied in that Prophecy,

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(56.) 'Tis here foretold, that the Fowls fhall remove from their old Places, and take their Flight together to fome other Place,

(57.) 'Tis here foretold, that the Sea of Sodom will, about this Time, produce living Fifh in Abundance.

(58.) 'Tis here foretold, that Confufion and Afto

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Prophecy, of which we have at prefent no Apprehenfions.

(56.) This Migration of Birds, or Fowls, the Inhabitants of the Air, which is fo known a Thing in feveral Sorts of them already, is no Way incredible. And perhaps many of them will remove into Judea, for the Conveniency of its new Inhabitants the Jews; The like to which, in the Cafe of the Inhabi tants of the Waters, will be fet down under the next Prediction.

(57.) Whether thefe Multitudes of Fishes will be anew created, or only removed from other Seas to the Sea of Sodom, I shall not pretend to determine. (However, see Page 31, 32, prius.)

(58.) This is much the fame with the 52d Predie

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