Page 121, lines 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 Let the words which are printed greatly out of place be read thus : Yea by confequence many hundred years fhould here be leaped over, which is not in any of the other Prophecies. 2 Because the rife of this Little Horn is in the latter time of the Gracian Monarchy, verse twenty three, and in the latter time, &c. Directions for the Bookbinder. Place the Title to the Appendix before Page 311. Know How long it fhall be unto the end of Wonders: Divided into three Parts. PART I. Handling fome things of more General concern ment as to our whole Difcourfe. CHAP. 1. Of the Justifiableneffe of this Enquiry.. Mongft the many Questions that this Age abounds with, The Great Question that we find in Daniel Cha. 12.6. How long shall it be to the end of Wonders? is neither of the leaft of thofe Gods people at this day are seeking resolution in; Nor may it be ranked B among among those we call unneceffary, feeing the Age it felf we live in, hath been,and is an age of Wonders. And truly, that I, once,and now again have affayed it,doth not arife I hope from any confidence I have of my felf,that there is in me above others an ability to refolve it (the thought of which thing I defire to abandon) but having been moved of late to wait upon the Lord for light, as in other things, fo even this alfo; and hoping that a door of tight as to the Question propounded, hath through the Lords merciful guidance of a finful unworthy creature, been fet open to me, I have judged it a duty, and indeed the greatest peece of fervice that I find my felf in a capacity to do for Chrift in my generation, to fet this light on a Candlestick, that Gods people may fee it. Yet in regard the Enquiry it felf is fuch as lieth under the cenfures of fome,the reproaches of others, and the general neglect almost of all, it will be neceffary that fomething be fpoken in the first place, by way of Juftification of the thing it felf, which I fhall do in two or three Conclufions laid down and proved. 1. CONCLUSION. That this Enquiry is no enemy to a mans own grace, or the grace of God in others; but rather a fpecial help and advantage to the increafe and quickning of grace, both in the perfon enquiring, and the perfon reading and hearing. 1 Because it is included within that generalCommand, John 5.39. Search the Scriptures; now God doth not command that which is prejudicial to our grace. 2. Be 2 Because the word of bleffing goes along with fincere and faithful endeavours of this nature, Rev.1.3. Bleed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this Prophefie, and keep thofe things which are written therein, Rev.22.7. Blef fed is he that keepeth the fayings of the Prophefie of this Book. The original word in either place tranflated keep, comes from a verb that fignifies to referve, or to obferve; noting, That this keeping which hath a bleffing twice annexed to it, first in the beginning, then in the end of the Apocalyps, is fuch a keeping whereby a man layes up the things here written in his heart, obferves how they are fulfilled,and acts towards God and man according ly; and therefore (I take it) is this Book fenced in with Gods bleffing, fo as no other befides it, to deliver us from fuch a conceit as this, viz. That by ftudying of it, our grace would either fuffer decay, or be loft. 3 Because we have a particular promife of fruit and fucceffe annexed to fuch an Enquiry, Dan.12.4. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge jhall be increased; This knowledge here mentioned being a fruit of the Promife, is not to be looked upon as head-knowledge only, but heart-knowledge alfo, and fuch knowledge alfo, is the very root and watering of grace, and therefore can be no enemy to it. 4 Not to multiply Reafons, which of the two whether to be ignorant of the times of Chrifts glorious appearances, and his coming, or to know them, if this knowledge be a thing attainable,efpecially for perfons living in the laft dayes, who are B 2 neer |