We proceed now to the Christian Prophecies concerning the End of the World. I do not mention those in _Daniel_, because I am not satisfied that any there (excepting that of the fifth Kingdom itself) extend so far. But in the _Apocalypse_ of St. _John_, which is the last Revelation we are to expect, there are several Prophecies that reach to the Consummation of this World, and the first Resurrection. The _seven Seals_, the _seven Trumpets_, the _seven Vials_, do all terminate upon that great Period. But they are rather Historical Prophecies than Chronological; they tell us, in their Language, the Events, but do not measure or express the Time wherein they come to pass. Others there are that may be call’d Chronological, as the _treading under Foot the Holy City, Forty and two months, Apoc. xi. 2._ The _Witnesses_ opposing Antichrist _One thousand Two hundred and sixty Days, Apoc. xi. 3._ The Flight of the _Woman into the Wilderness_, for the same Number of Days, or for a _Time, Times, and half a Time, Apoc. xii. 6 & 14._ And lastly, The War of the Beasts against the Saints, _Forty-two Months, Apoc. xiii. 5._ These all, you see, express a Time for their Completion; and all the same Time, if I be not mistaken: But they do not reach to the End of the World. Or if some of them did reach so far, yet because we do not certainly know where to fix their Beginning, we must still be at a Loss, when, or in what Year they will expire. As for Instance, if the Reign of the Beast, or the Preaching of the Witnesses be 1260 Years, as is reasonably suppos’d; yet if we do not know certainly when this Reign, or this Preaching begun, neither can we tell when it will end. And the _Epocha_’s, or Beginnings of these Prophecies are so differently calculated, and are Things of so long Debate, as to make the Discussion of them altogether improper for this Place. Yet it must be confest, that the best Conjectures that can be made concerning the approaching End of the World, must be taken from a judicious Examination of these Points: And accordingly as we gather up the Prophecies of the _Apocalypse_, in a successive Completion, we see how by degrees we draw nearer and nearer to the Conclusion of all. But till some of these enlightening Prophecies be accomplish’d, we are as a Man that awakes in the Night, all is dark about him, and he knows not how far the Night is spent; but if he watch till the Light appears, the first Glimpses of that will resolve his Doubts. We must have a little Patience, and, I think, but a little; still eyeing those Prophecies of the _Resurrection_ of the _Witnesses_, and the _Depression_ of _Antichrist_: ’Till by their Accomplishment, the Day dawn, and the Clouds begin to change their Colour. Then we shall be able to make a near Guess, when the Sun of Righteousness will arise.