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the time of its coming after the other was wholly uncertain, and not revealed to him or any Creature whatsoever: and upon that occafion he proceeds to a large and famous Difcourfe of that great Day, and the way to prepare for it, in the following Chapter. And the like is to be faid of the parallel Chapters in St. Mark and St. Luke; but only that they omit the greatest part of that famous Difcourfe of our Savior's on the Day of Judgment which we alone find in St. Matthew's Gofpel.

A COL

A

COLLECTION

OF

SCRIPTURE-PROPHECIES,

Relating to the Times after the Coming
of the Meffiah.

I.

Prophecies Relating to the Destruction of Jerusa. lem by the Romans, and to the grand Difperfion and Captivity of the Jews fucceeding it.

LEVIT. XXVI. 14-45.

BUT if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these

commandments;

15. And if ye shall defpife my ftatutes, or if your fouls abhor my judgments, fo that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my Covenant:

16. I also will do this unto you, I will even appoint over you terrour, confumption, and the burning-ague; that shall confume the eyes, and caufe forrow of heart: and ye shall sow your feed in vain, for your enemies fhall eat it.

17. And I will fet my face against you, and ye shall be flain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you, and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.

18. And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your fins.

19. And I will break the pride of your power; and I will

make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:

20. And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land

Shall

hall not yield her increase, neither fall the trees of the land yield their fruits.

21. And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring feven times more plagues upon you, according to your fins.

22. I will also fend wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number, and your high-ways fhall be defolate.

23. And if ye will not be reformed by these things, but will walk contrary unto me:

24. Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet feven times for your fins.

25. And I will bring a word upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the peftilence among you; and ye fall be delivered into the band of the enemy.

26. And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women fhall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat and not be fatisfied.

27. And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me:

28. Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chaftife you seven times for your fins.

29. And ye shall eat the flesh of your fons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.

30. And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your Images, and caft your carcafes upon the carcafes of your idols, and my foul ball abkor you.

31. And I will make your cities wafte, and bring your fanEtuaries unto defolation, and I will not fmell the favour of your Sweet odours.

32. And I will bring the land into defolation: and your enemies which dwell therein, (hall be astonish'd at it.

33. And I will fcatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a fword after you: and your land fhall be defolate, and your cities waste.

34. Then fhall the land enjoy her fabbaths, as long as it lieth defolate,

defolate, and ye be in your enemies land; even then shall the land _reft, and enjoy her fabbaths.

35. As long as it lieth defolate, it shall reft: because it did not rest in your fabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

36. And upon them that are left alive of you, I will fend a faintnefs into their hearts, in the lands of their enemies; and the found of a fhaken leaf fall chafe them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a fword: and they shall fall when noxe pursueth.

37. And they shall fall one upon another as it were before a fword, when none purfuesh and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies,

38. And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies fhall eat you up.

39. And they that are left of you fall pine away in their iniquity, in your enemies lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers all they pine away with them.

40. If they hall confefs their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trefpaffed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;

41. And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcifed hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:

42. Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and alfo my covenant with Ifaac, and alfo my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.

43. The land alfo shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her fabbaths, while fhe lieth defolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because,even because they defpifed my judgments, and because their foul abhorred my statutes.

44. And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not caft them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them : for I am the Lord their God.

45. But I will for their fakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt, in the fight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the

Lord.

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NUM B. XXIV. 24.

24.And hips fhall come from the coaft of Chittim, and fall afflict Afbur, and fhall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.

DEUT. iv. 25-31.

25. When thou shalt beget children, and childrens children, and fhalt have remained long in the land, and fhall corrupt your felves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and Shall do evil in the fight of the Lord thy God, to provoke him

to anger:

28. I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall foon utterly perish from off the land whereunto you ga over Jordan to poffefs it: ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.

27. And the Lord fhall fcatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the Lord fhall lead you.

28. And there ye shall ferve gods, the work of mens hands, wood and stone, which neither fee, nor hear, nor cat, nor smell.

29. But if from thence thou shall feek the Lord thy God, thon fhall find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart, and with all thy foul.

30. When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the Lord thy God, and shall be obedient to his voice:

31. (For the Lord thy God is a merciful God,) he will not for fake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers, which he fware unto them.

CHAP. Xxviij. 25-68.

25. The Lord fhall caufe thee to be fmitten before thine mnemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee feven ways before them; and fhalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

49. The Lord fhall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth; as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whofe tongue thon fhalt not understand :

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