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a scroll, and all their hofl shall fall do®* 1leaf falleth from the Vine,8tc. Ilai.fi-d- ^.Heavens shall vanish away like smoke,andEarth shall wax old like a garment, Joel % f>sThe Sun Jhall he turned into darkness, and t ^Moon into llood, before that great and t ers J tlie day of the Lord comes. IVialaclii 4 -1- &hold the day cometh that shall burn likeOven, &c. Dcut. -\z.zz. For a fire is ki n jled in my anger, and shall burn to the lo^Hell, and shall consume the Earth with ' Jencreafe, and set on fire the foundation! vthe Mountains. I must contest that j-PProphetick Books are full of figurative fpreslions, being written in a Poetick St) 7 ‘ e jand according to the strain of the OrielsRhetorick, which is much different stothe European, affecting lofty and tumid ^

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gravations, which would either found h ar *to our Ears, or import a great deal tn 0 .to us than they did to them. This is 0 ^vious to any one that reads their Booksmay clearly be demonstrated from th e fties that their Kings assumed to themfc'ssas well anciently as lately, adr. Sons of 'Sun, Brethren of the Sun and Moots ,

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