like those of Sodom; thy voluptuousness shall cry aloud for vengeance; the Lord shall threaten and chastise thee, yet in mercy and love will he look upon those that fear him, and call upon his name; he will spare and save them alive in the days of his anger, when the wicked shall be sifted from amongst you as the chaff is sifted from amongst the wheat; for out of thee, O England, shall a bright star arise, whose light and voice shall make the heathen to quake, and knock under with submission to the gospel of Jesus; he shall be as a sound of thunder in the ears of the wicked, and as a lantern to the Jews, to lead them to the knowledge of Jesus, the only Son of God, and true Messiah, whom they so long mistrusted; for the short work spoken of by the apostle, which the Lord is to make upon the earth in the latter age of the world, cannot be far off. Observe, my dear friends, while you live, my calculation of the dates in the book of the Revelation, and in Daniel, which the Spirit of the Lord led me into; for the Lord will reveal it to some of his own ere that time come; for the nearer the time is, the seals shall be taken away, and more and more shall be revealed to God's people; for the Lord doth nothing without he reveals it, by his Spirit, to his servants the prophets: he destroyed not e old world without the knowledge of Noah; did not overthrow Sodom and Gomorrah

the testimony of Jesus are placed under the altar? Happy, happy are those men at this day, and ever happy shall be, who suffer for Christ's sake in a right and charitable way, through love to his cause, and honesty of heart; not through pride and hypocrisy, without the root of the matter, to have it said they died martyrs; these are they who will miss their mark; and those who denied the call and looked back shall never have the honour to find it. I am now pointed out by many to be in a destitute and forlorn condition; but I would not exchange my state, no, not for all the glory that's on the earth: I find my Redeemer's love stronger in my bonds than ever I did in the days of my liberty; therefore I hold living here as death itself. I am as full of love and joy in the Holy Spirit as ever bottle was filled with new wine. I am ready to cry out, The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; I will not take upon me to prophesy; nevertheless the Spirit of the Lord causeth me to utter: This usurped authority, now in the hands of Cromwell, shall shortly be at an end; England shall be blessed with meek kings and mild governments; powerful preachers and dull hearers; good sermons to them will be as music to a sleepy man; they shall hear, but not understand, nor lay the word to heart, to practise it in their lives, to walk by it. O England! thou shalt wax old in wickedness; thy sins abound

like those of Sodom; thy voluptuousness shall cry aloud for vengeance; the Lord shall threaten and chastise thee, yet in mercy and love will he look upon those that fear him, and call upon his name; he will spare and save them alive in the days of his anger, when the wicked shall be sifted from amongst you as the chaff is sifted from amongst the wheat; for out of thee, O England, shall a bright star arise, whose light and voice shall make the heathen to quake, and knock under with submission to the gospel of Jesus; he shall be as a sound of thunder in the ears of the wicked, and as a lantern to the Jews, to lead them to the knowledge of Jesus, the only Son of God, and true Messiah, whom they so long mistrusted; for the short work spoken of by the apostle, which the Lord is to make upon the earth in the latter age of the world, cannot be far off. Observe, my dear friends, while you live, my calculation of the dates in the book of the Revelation, and in Daniel, which the Spirit of the Lord led me into; for the Lord will reveal it to some of his own ere that time come; for the nearer the time is, the seals shall be taken away, and more and more shall be revealed to God's people; for the Lord doth nothing without he reveals it, by his Spirit, to his servants the prophets: he destroyed not the old world without the knowledge of Noah; he did not overthrow Sodom and Gomorrah

without the knowledge of Abraham. I do not mean now that any new prophet shall arise; but the Lord by his Spirit shall cause knowledge to abound among his people, whereby the old prophecies shall be clearly and perfectly understood. And I die in that thought, and really believe that my calculation on the Revelation by St. John, and the prophecy which St. Jerome copied off, and translated out of the Hebrew language, as it is written on Seth's pillar in Damascus, which pillar is said to have stood since before the flood, and was built by Seth, Adam's son, and written by Enoch the prophet; as likewise the holy precepts, whereby the patriarch walked before the law was given to Moses, which were also engraven on the said pillar, whereof many Jews have copies, in their own language, written on parchment, and engraven on brass and copper; but the alteration of the date makes them to stagger at it, not knowing that the dates were to be altered by the birth of Christ. First, this prophecy is entitled, A short work of the Lord's in the latter age of the world. Great earthquakes and commotions, by the sea and land, shall come in the year of God 1779. Great wars in Germany and America in 1780. The destruction of popery, or Babylon's fall, in the year 1790. God will be known by many in 1795. This will produce a great man. The stars will wander, and the moon turn as blood,

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in the year 1800. Africa, Asia, and America, will tremble in 1803. A great earthquake over all the world in 1805. God will be universally known by all then a general reformation and peace for ever, when the people shall learn war no more. Happy is the man that liveth to see this day!"

The Prophecy of John Lacy.

In his Warnings, published in London in the year 1707.

THE spirit of God seems now performing great wonders in all nations, in order to bring about the work of reformation; wherein I could make it appear very plain, by a numerous train of deductions, that several scripture prophecies are at this time fulfilling in the world, tending to the overthrow and destruction of antichrist, and for the liberties of mankind; tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him (saith Daniel, chap. xi. ver. 44, 45.) yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him. The following remarkable prophecy is fulfilling at or near these times, as delivered long ago by Johannes Amatus, in his Prophetical Pleiades, which runs thus: "I foresee (says he) great wars and combats, with extraordinary shedding of blood, occaFoned by the civil discords of the great men of