Words of the Lord delivered by his Prophet? (fee Jer. Chap. xx.) And is there no Similitude between his Conduct and the Sin of Elymas, who endeavoured to turn away the Deputy from the Faith, to hinder the Succefs of the Apostle, and pervert the right Ways of the Lord? (fee Ats, Chap. xiii.) Is this Writer fure that his Confcience will not, fome Time or other, recoil, and raife Reflections in his Mind, that will fill him with Horror? But not with that pleafing Kind of Horror with which Children bear and relate frightful Stories in the Nurfery. publifhed this Book not to gain the Applaufe of Men, nor any pecuniary Advantage to myfelf; for I never have, and never will apply to my own Ufe, any Copy-Money that may arife from Books intended to promote Piety; and in this Service I have fet before my Readers Things which the Holy Ghoft teaches, and which are of the utmost Importance to them, and in the Language of the facred Scriptures. It is to be wifhed,, that Men would, for their own fakes, lay afide their Prejudices, and read this Book once before they fay any thing to dif courage others from reading it: It may be they will find more Satisfaction and Comfort in it than they expect, and fo much as may incline them afterwards to look into it, and read here and there according to incidental Occafions. O mighty and merciful God, plead thine own Caufe, and vindicate the Honour of thy own Word! Affift and profper all thy Servants who labour to promote that pure Religion which thou haft taught us! Pity thofe who have erred, enlighten their Minds, and rectify their Judgments, and bring them to the Knowledge, Belief, and Acknow Acknowledgment of thy Truths, that they may be faved. Amen. THEO. LOBB. N. B. Thofe Perfons, who have bought thefe Letters, may have Dr. LOBB's Reply fixed at the End of them gratis, if they fend their Books to Mr. Buckland. FINI S. That this may be the Cafe of those, who shall read thefe Papers, is the Prayer of, London, March 17, 1761. Et in Anno Vita, 83. their faithful Servant, THEOPHILUS LOBB. FINIS. ΟΝ ΤΗΕ Sacred Predictions : PROPER FOR THE Confideration of all Sorts of People at all Times; more especially, whenever in Danger of PUBLIC CALAMITIES: Collected out of the Holy Scriptures; fhewing the EVENTS which fome Perfons have Reason to fear; and thofe for which others have Ground to hope. Whereunto is added, Dr. LOBB's REPLY to the REMARKS made upon his LETTERS on the Sacred Predictions, in the Monthly Review for July 1761. Intended for promoting Piety and the Confolation of ferious Christians of every Denomination, when under Affliction, either of a temporal or spiritual Kind, frequent in the common Course of Life; and likewife for their Comfort in Times of Public Calamities, when the Miseries of War, or of the Peftilence, or of Famine, &c. fhall be brought into any City or Country, By THEOPHILUS LOBB, M. D. Search the Scriptures. John v. 39. LONDON: Printed for J. BUCKLAND, at the Buck in Pater nofter Row, M. DCC LXII. |