Having dispatched the Reasons, two things yet remaine about their Conversion, which I must speake somewhat to, and those are the _Time_, and the _Manner_; as for the _time when_, the determining of that is hard, though not impossible. I beleeve that it is punctually set downe in Scripture, and God wil be as criticall in looking after times as things; but all the difficulty of knowing it is from the darknesse, and defects of our understanding, and not from a supposed uncertainty in the thing. So that I am equally adverse as to the common practise of the _Jewes_, who because they are unwilling to owne Gods accomplishments, doe therefore dis-allow his computations, and expressly hold that man accursed who busieth himselfe in that study. So to the too common opinion of those who say, That oft in such computations God puts a certaine number for an uncertaine. No, there is an infallibility in the set times of Scripture; only the Well is deep, and the cord to our Bucket is but short! yet this difficulty should not cause despondency, but quicken our industry. All that I shall now say to it is this, I judge the time not farre off; this present age will see those things fulfilled which we have waited and prayed for. _R. Maimonides_ saith of Jesus Christ, That since _Moses_ his time none so like to the Messiah as the Christ of the Christians; so I say, since Christ, no period of time so like to be that, in which the _Jewes_ shall be called, as this in which we live. And perhaps it is nearer than we are aware of, being the more comfortably perswaded of it, by that excellent Treatise called, _The Revelation revealed_, newly published by a Gentleman of an indefatigable Spirit for God and publick good, Mr. S. _Hartlib_, in which Apocalypticall computations are explained the most harmoniously, and clearly, that I have read in any discourse of that nature. He saith positively, that at the ending of the last yeare of 1655. the seventh Trumpet shall sound; whose effect will be as much good to Gods elected ones, whether _Jewes_, or _Gentiles_, as our hearts can wish for. I shall adde this, The age in which we live, hath been eyed by many Generations past, for the time wherein the _Iewes_ shall be received to mercy; many of their owne Writers, and also of Christian Authors have pitched upon it; And I beleeve that God will be as gracious to them in this their last, and greatest restauration, as he was to them in that of their returne out of _Babylon_; now concerning that there were three computations and epochaes of the beginning (and consequently of the ending) of the seventy yeares of captivity; and observe, that those seventy yeares ended, and the _Iewes_ returned, not at the latest computation, but with the first, for there were but seventy yeares from _Jechoniahs_ carrying to _Babylon_, (which was the first Captivity) to the release by the Proclamation of _Cyrus_. And as God ended that Captivity with the soonest, so I hope that he will doe this; especially