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time it affords me art additional pleafure in giving me an opportunity of acknowledging publicly my obligations to Your GRACE for favours great in themselves, but made much greater by your handsome manner of conferring them, unsolicited, unafked, unexpected. I will not say undeserved, because that would be calling Your GRACE'S judgment in queftion; but I will endeavour to deferve them and indeed I fhould think any preferment ill beftowed upon me, that did not incite and animate me more

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MY LORD,

YOUR GRACE'S EVER OBLIGED,

NOVEMBER, 3. 1758.

AND DUTIFUL HUMBLE SERVANT,

THOMAS NEWTON.

THE

CONTENTS

OF THE

SECOND VOLUME.

DISSERTATION XVIII.

Our SAVIOUR'S prophecies relating to the deftruation of JE

RUSALEM.

IN FOUR PARTS.

PART I...

P. I-26.

Prophecies and miracles continued longer in the Jewish church than in the Chriftian, and why, 1. No Chriftian prophecies recorded, but fome of our Saviour and his apostles, particularly St Paul and St John, 2. A fhort fummary of our Saviour's prophecies, 2. None more remarkable than those relating to the deftruction of Jerufalem, which were written and published several years before that event, 3. Our Saviour's tender. nefs and affection for his country fhown in his lamenting and weeping over Jerufalem, 5. The magnifi. cence of the temple, and particularly the prodigious fize of the ftones, 6. The total and utter destruction of the city and temple foretold, and both deftroyed accordingly, 7. The purport of the difciples question and the phrafes of the coming of Chrift and of the end of the world, fhown to fignify the deftruction of Jerufalem, 9. The difciples afk two things, firft the time of the deftruction of Jerufalem, and fecondly the figns of it; our Saviour answers the last first, 10. Falfe Christs the first fign, 11. The next figns wars and rumours of wars, 13. Nation rifing against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, 13. Famines, peftilences,

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