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The Signals of terrible Judgments foretold to come before the Restoration of the Jews, produced and explained.

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MATT. xvi. 1, 2, 31 4.

HE Pharifees with the Sadducees, came, and tempting Jefus, defired he would give them a Sign from Heaven.

2. He answered, and faid unto them, When it is Evening ye fay,

it will be fair Weather, for the Sky is red:

3. And in the Morning, it will be foul Weather To-day; for the Sky is red and lowring. O ye

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Hypocrites! Ye can difcern the Face of the Sky, but can ye not difcern the SIGNS OF THE TIMES?

4. A wicked and adulterous Generation feeketh after a Sign; and there shall no Sign be given to it, but the Sign of the Prophet Jonas. Jonah i. 17.

LUKE xii. 54, 55, 56.

54. And he said alfo to the People, When ye fee a Cloud rife out of the Weft, ftraightway ye fay, there cometh a Shower, and fo it is:

55. And when ye fee the South Wind blow, ye fay, there will be Heat, and it cometh to pass:

56. Ye Hypocrites! ye can difcern the Face of the Sky, and of the Earth: But how is it that ye do not discern this Time?

N. B. Although thefe Words of our Saviour belonged only to his firft Coming, and to Jonas the Prophet, as having been three Days in the Fish's Belly, for a divine Signal, that the Son of Man fhould be fo long in Hades, or the Heart of the Earth, between his Death and Refurrection; yet may they be very fitly applied to any other divine Signals, or Signs of the Times; efpecially to those relating to his fecond Coming to restore the Jews, and fet up the Millennium, which has been already fully proved to be very foon approaching. See before, Page 602-610. I come now to the Predictions of thefe Signals themselves.

Ifa. xxiv. xxv. xxvi. and xxvii. being the moft remarkable Chapters as to thefe Signals, but dif