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ment of their ownChoice, but which God highly difapproved. Deut. xvii, 14-20. 1 Sam. viii. per tot. xii. per tot. and of which the Jews were themselves long afterwards throughly weary. Nor do I once imagine, that the Meffiah will ever choose fuch abfolute royal Authority under his own Kingdom, which he is now going to fet up in Judea, and under which State the 101ft Pfalm defcribes his Adminiftration; for the coming of which Kingdom, not the Jews only, as we have feen, every Day pray to God, but the Chriftians alfo, every Time they ufe the Lord's Prayer, if they understand themfelves, do the fame, when they fay, Thy Kingdom come; there being no other Kingdom of God

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pected at his Afcenfion, Acts i. 6. when they hoped he would even then reftore it to Ifrael; and which was not to come till he should reftore the Jews to their own Country, and God fhould govern them by their King Meffiah. Indeed, if the Kings that call themselves Moft Chriftian, or Catholick, or Defenders of the Faith, would imitate that wonderful Duke of Saxe-Gotha, Erneftus the Pious, the Great Grandfather of our prefent Princess of Wales, whofe most excellent Life I have just now re-published, all good Men would undoubtedly be very easy, and greatly fatisfied with that Form of Govern

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But that is not ordinarily to be expected by us. So that while we retain that Form of Government, we may juftly fuffer the terrible Inconveniencies of it. Nor need I enumerate the Miferies of late fuffered from the present Kings and Princes here foretold; no observing Person being able to avoid seeing those Miseries.

(48.) The exact fulfilling of this Prediction, for these last 39 Years, is known to all the World, ever fince the depofing of the Sophi of Perfia by Merowitz, A. D. 1711..

(49) (50.) When thefe Signs come to be fulfilled, which cannot be now at any remote Diftance, it will very probably appear which of the two Copies are the

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(51.) It is here foretold, that about thefe Times Blood shall drop out of the Wood.

(52.) 'Tis here foretold, that some eminent Stone, or Rock, fhall give its Voice about this

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ment, both as to the Signs themselves, and as to the exact Times for their Completion.

(51.) This Sign has not yet been verified by any Event of that Nature that I know of. Yet do I not doubt of its Verification in due Seafon hereafter; 'efpecially when,

(52.) A remarkable Stone, or Rock, which is the next Signal, and not lefs ftrange in itself than the former, has very lately been verified in our own Country. Take this aftonishing History in the Words of the original Letter, dated at Cockermouth in Cumberland, Sept. 3, 1749. It is printed in the General Evening Post, from Thursday, Sept. 12, to Thursday, Sept. 14, the

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