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As to the Author's ingenious Observations on the Prophecies, we entirely leave them to the Reader's Judgment: With only observing, though it is the Apprehension of many learned Men, that there is to be a very general Slaughter of the Witnesses of CHRIST about the Time of their finishing their Testimony to the pure Worship and Truths of the Gospel, about 3 or 4 Years before the seventh Angel sounds his Trumpet for the Ruin of Antichrist;—yet we cannot see that this is any just Objection against our joint and earnest Prayers for the glorious Age succeeding, or for the hastening of it.

As to the Author's ingenious Observations on the Prophecies, we entirely leave them to the Reader's Judgment: With only observing, thô it is the Apprehension of many learned Men, that there is to be a very general Slaughter of the Witnesses of CHRIST about the Time of their finishing their Testimony to the pure Worship and Truths of the Gospel, about 3 or 4 Years before the seventh Angel sounds his Trumpet for the Ruin of Antichrist;—yet we cannot see that this is any just Objection against our joint and earnest Prayers for the glorious Age succeeding, or for the hastening of it.

For if such a terrible Time is coming in Europe, which we in depending America are like to share in; the more Need we have of joining in earnest and constant Prayers for extraordinary suffering Graces for ourselves and others. And that such a Time is coming on the Members of CHRIST, is no more an Objection against their Prayers for the hastening of the following Glory, than it was before the Incarnation of Him their Head, that his most bitter Sufferings were to proceed the Spreading of his joyous Kingdom among the Nations. And the nearer the Day approaches, the more Need we have to be awakened to continual Watchfulness and Prayer.

For if such a terrible Time is coming in Europe, which we in depending America are like to share in; the more Need we have of joining in earnest and constant Prayers for extraordinary suffering Graces for ourselves and others. And that such a Time is coming on the Members of CHRIST, is no more an Objection against their Prayers for the hastening of the following Glory, than it was before the Incarnation of Him their Head, that his most bitter Sufferings were to preceed the Spreading of his joyous Kingdom among the Nations. And the nearer the Day approaches, the more Need we have to be awakened to continual Watchfulness and Prayer.