A dissertation concerning the future conversion of the Jewish Nation. Answering the objections of…

The Vision is for an appointed Time, but at the End it shall speak and not lye. There are also who think that the Twelve Hundred and Sixty Days will End with the Year 96. So Mr. Beverly in his late Books. I remember that once in Discourse with that worthy Man Three Years since, he told me that he did no more doubt but that in the Year 97. there would be an happy Turn of Affairs, than he did question whether to morrow would come after to day. Nor is his Fundamental Notion of the last Half Time, beginning in the Year 1517. to […] despised. If that hold good, the Twelve Hundred and Sixty Days will […] fallibly end in the Year 97. Perhaps some would rather begin the semi-ti•• from the Year 1530. when the Protestant Name began; then the 1260 Days expire Anno 1710. Mr. Baxter tells Mr. Beverly if he should live to see himself disappointed in his Ninety Seven, he does not know how he will be able to bear it: But if he should, he is not the first worthy Man that has been mistaken in Computations. Others concur with him as to the Time, tho' not as to the Ground• he goes upon. A late Writer thinks that because the last ⟨p. 13⟩[…] Horns appeared, Anno 455. that therefore the 1260 Days end Anno […] because these Years may be reckoned by Thirty Days to a Month, […] •he whole Account to be Seventeen Years and an Half less, and ••at brings us to 1697. Others have a Notion that it was an ancient Tradition that Christianity would last 365. Years. Austin says that some in those Days gave out that the Apostle Peter had so taught. Now we must reckon the Christian World to begin at the Destruction of the Jewish World, when the Temple was burnt in the Year 72. to which add 365, and it makes 4•7. the Year when Mr. Beverly begins the Antichristian World, and so ends it with 1697. Napier in his Discovery of the Revelations, Prop. 14. thinks that the Day of Judgment will begin Anno 1697, or at furthest in 1699. There was found in the Study of Justus Lapsius a Prophecy, which predicts both the Expiration of the Turkish Empire, and the utter Desolation of Rome in the Year 1698. which is Four Years hence: The Words of the Prophet (or however of the Poet) are these.

The Vision is for an appointed Time, but at the End it shall speak and not lye. There are also who think that the Twelve Hundred and Sixty Days will End with the Year 96. So Mr. Beverly in his late Books. I remember that once in Discourse with that worthy Man Three Years since, he told me that he did no more doubt but that in the Year 97. there would be an happy Turn of Affairs, than he did question whether to morrow would come after to day. Nor is his Fundamental Notion of the last Half Time, beginning in the Year 1517. to despised. If that hold good, the Twelve Hundred and Sixty Days will fallibly end in the Year 97. Perhaps some would rather begin the semi-ti from the Year 1530. when the Protestant Name began; then the 1260 Days expire Anno 1710. Mr. Baxter tells Mr. Beverly if he should live to see himself disappointed in his Ninety Seven, he does not know how he will be able to bear it: But if he should, he is not the first worthy Man that has been mistaken in Computations. Others concur with him as to the Time, tho' not as to the Ground he goes upon. A late Writer thinks that because the last