3. “Human intellect will do wonders, (or miracles,) and on this account men will more and more forget God. They will mock at God, thinking themselves omnipotent, because of the carriages, which shall run through the whole world, (or everywhere,) without being drawn by animals. 4. “And because courtly vices, sensuality, and sumptuousness of apparel, are then so great, God will punish the world. A poison shall fall on the fields, and a great famine shall afflict the country.” In Nos. 3 and 4, railways and the potato blight seem meant. 5. “When a bridge shall be thrown across the Rhine at Mondorf, then it will be advisable to cross, as soon as possible, to the opposite shore. But it will only be necessary to remain there so long as a man will take to consume a 7 lb. loaf of bread; after which (that is, in less than a week,) it will be time to return.” This coincides with Jaspers’ prediction of the shortness of the last great struggle. 6. “Thousands shall conceal themselves in a meadow among the seven mountains, (opposite Bonn.) 7. “I see the destruction of the heretics, with dreadful punishments; of those who dared to think their puny minds could penetrate the councils of God. But the long-suffering of God is at an end, and a limit is put to their wickedness.” The worthy curate dwells with peculiar satisfaction on this prediction. 8. “Observe well, thou land of Berg! Thy reigning family, which proceeds from a Margraviate, shall suddenly fall from its high station, and become less than the smallest Margraviate.” The grand-duchy of Berg, on the Lower Rhine, of which Düsseldorf is the chief town, was given by Napoleon to Murat, and was afterwards part of the kingdom of Westphalia, but, since the peace, has formed part of Prussia, the royal family of which, as we have seen, descends from the Margraves of Brandenburg; but in 1783 all this was as yet in the womb of time. See also Jaspers, No. 17, and Brother Herrmann, verse 93. 9. “The false prophets (heretic clergy?) shall be killed with wife and child. 10. “The holy city of Cologne shall then see a fearful battle. Many, of foreign nations, shall here be killed, and men and women shall fight for their faith. And it will be impossible to avert from Cologne, up to that time spared by war, all the cruel extremities of war. Men will then wade in blood to the ankles. 11. “But at last a foreign king shall arise, and gain the victory for the good cause. The survivors of the defeated enemy fly to the _birch-tree_; and here shall the last battle be fought for the good cause.” See Nos. 9 and 33 of Jaspers’ sayings, as to the birch-tree and the German king; also verse 95 of Brother Herrmann.