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Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /
Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume / by several ministers in and about London, preached in October, 1689.
London: printed by James Astwood for John Dunton, 1690
Sermon 16: Quest. How may we enquire after News not as Athenians but as Christians; for the better…
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It will be worth your while to read those Excellent pieces of Mr. Joseph Mede, who wrote his Key of the Revelation above Threescore Years ago in Latin, I cannot say whether it be Translated into English, having always kept my self to the Latin Copy; but 'tis a Thousand pities it should be confined to Latin; a Book fit to be published in all Languages.
It will be worth your while to read those Excellent peices of Mr. Joseph Mede, who wrote his Key of the Revelation above Threescore Years ago in Latin, I cannot say whether it be Translated into English, having alwayes kept my self to the Latin Copy; but 'tis a Thousand pitties it should be confin'd to Latin; a Book fit to be publisht in all Languages.
Of Mr. Jurien, Accomplishment of Prophesies, Translated out of French into English.
Of a Nameless Author newly written in French, and translated into English, Printed lately under the Title of A New System of the Apocalypse, &c.
I commend to you who would know the Importance of public News, How to pray and praise God; on hearing it, How to wait for Deliverances, to read diligently those Books in which are greater and better News than any Packets, then all Gazettes or Coffee-houses can yet afford to you, when you have read these Books then Long for One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety Six, or One Thousand Seven Hundred; and hope if you live to that day to hear Mohammedanism in the Turkish Empire destroyed with that Empire. Wish for One Thousand Seven Hundred Thirty Five, or One Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty; and remember I do not pretend to Prophesy, but I do dismiss with a conjecture that between this time and that you'll see great Deliverances to the Churches of Christ, and as great Distresses and Judgments executed on the Anti-christian Kingdom, it may be the total Ruin of that Kingdom which was to last but One Thousand Two Hundred and Sixty Years, and I think will have out-lasted that Period before One Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty.