Predictions. 6. That terrible Meteors are to come upon Mankind from the Air. Completions. Noab at the Deluge; of Lot in the Destruction of Sodom, and of the Chriftians at Pella, when Jerufalem was destroyed by Titus Vefpafian, are comfortable Examples, to good Men to expect the like hereafter. 6. It is to be obferved, that the first of our modern remarkable Meteors, or Northern Lights, came in the Year 1715, (as did the great Eclipfe of the Sun come the fame Year,) the very Year when the Period of the outer Court of the Temple trodden down by the Gentiles firft ended; immediateby ly after which Chrift foretold these Tokens fhould come, as we have feen. Which Sort of Meteors were so common after 1715, for about twenty-one Years, till the Predictions. Completions. the second of those Years 1736 (the great Year for Eclipfes alfo) as to Completions. to Saturday, April 14, 1750; where, in an Extract of a Letter from Liverpool, concerning the fmart Earthquake felt there, and at Manchester, April 2, about ten at Night, reaching pretty near forty Miles North and South, and about thirty Leagues Eaft and Weft, we have this additional Claufe: I went • out to obferve the Air, ⚫ and found a much ftranger Appearance than I ever before faw. • Great Mifts of Bloodred Rays converged, from all Parts of the 'Heavens, to one dark Point; but no lumi Completions. Days before the Defcent of the Germans their Republick, upon the Sun was darkened in a furprizing Man'ner.' Yet was not there, that we know of, any remarkable Northern Light in near one hundred Years before 1715, as my printed Account of that Meteor demonftrates. Nor do all our Hiftories furnish us with any whit near so many of them, in all the past Ages, as thofe twentyone Years afforded us; though the fuperftitious Regard to all fuch Meteors, as ominous, in ancient Times fecures us, that those Appearances, had theybeen as common as they have often been of late, would not have been omitted by the Hiftorians of those Ages. It is also highly worthy our Observation, that the |